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Mario Puzo

Born

in Manhattan, New York, The United States

October 15, 1920

Died

July 02, 1999

Website

http://www.mariopuzo.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Classics, Mafia

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Puzo was born in a poor family of Neapolitan immigrants living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York. Many of his books draw heavily on this heritage. After graduating from the City College of New York, he joined the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. Due to his poor eyesight, the military did not let him undertake combat duties but made him a public relations officer stationed in Germany. In 1950, his first short story, The Last Christmas, was published in American Vanguard. After the war, he wrote his first book, The Dark Arena, which was published in 1955.

At periods in the 1950s and early 1960s, Puzo worked as a writer/editor for publisher Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company. Puzo, along with other writers lPuzo was born in a poor family of Neapolitan immigrants living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York. Many of his books

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Puzo, Mario, 1920-1999

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Biography

Mario Puzo was born in 1920 to Neopolitan parents in the Italian immigrant neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen in New York City. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was stationed in Germany. Although he did not engage in combat activities due to poor eyesight. Upon returning home, he enrolled at the New School for Social Research on the GI Bill and embarked on a professional life as a writer. During the 1950s and 1960s Puzo wrote essays and articles for Martin Goodman's Magazine Management company as well as a number of popular men's magazines, including Male and Swank. His first novel, The Dark Arena, was published by Random House in 1955. It was well-received but was not a financial success. Ten years later, in 1965, Puzo published his semi-autobiographical novel, The Fortunate Pilgrim, which recounted his mother's experience emigrating to the United States from Italy. While The Fortunate Pilgrim was praised by critics-The New York Times dubbed it "a sm

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Mario Puzo

American author, screenwriter, and journalist (1920–1999)

Mario Francis Puzo (; Italian:[ˈmaːrjoˈputtso,-ddzo]; October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001.^[1]

Personal life

Puzo was born in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City to Italian immigrants from the Province of Avellino; his father was from Pietradefusi and his mother from Ariano Irpino.^[2] When Puzo was 12, his father, who worked as a trackman for the New York Central Railroad, was committed to the Pilgrim State Hospital for schizophrenia,^[3] and his wife Maria was left