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Mario Puzo

1920 - 1999

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Mario Francis Puzo (; Italian: [ˈmaːrjo ˈputtso, -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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mario Puzo is the 337th most popular writer (up from 364th in 2019), the 376th most popular biography from United States (down from 343rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular American Writer.

Mario Puzo is most famous for his novel The Godfather, which was made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola.

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Among writers, Mario Puzo ranks 337 out of 7,302. Before him are Jaggi Vasudev, Apollonius of Rhodes, Philip K. Dick, Michael Ende, Saadi Shirazi, and Christine de Pizan. After him are Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ève Curie, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Maurice Leblanc, Arion, and Archilochus.

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Among people born in 1920, Mario Puzo ranks 15. Before him are Juan Antonio Samaranch, Ray Bradbury, George Shultz, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Pran, and Paul Celan. After him are Owen Chamberlain, Frank Herbert, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Melina Mercouri, Amália Rodrigues, and Gianni Rodari. Among people deceased in 1999, Mario Puzo ranks 11. Before him are Joseph Heller, Fred Trump, Pete Conrad, Scatman John, John F. Kennedy Jr., and Gertrude B. Elion. After him are Joaquín Rodrigo, Amália Rodrigues, Yehudi Menuhin, Raisa Gorbacheva, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, and Wassily Leontief.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mario Puzo ranks 376 out of 20,380. Before him are Jesse Owens (1913), Spencer Tracy (1900), Philip K. Dick (1928), Ava Gardner (1922), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), and The Undertaker (1965). After him are Sharon Stone (1958), B. F. Skinner (1904), Bill Haley (1925), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Joe Pesci (1943), and William Howard Taft (1857).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Mario Puzo ranks 34. Before him are Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Walt Whitman (1819), Paul Auster (1947), Arthur Miller (1915), Herman Melville (1819), and Philip K. Dick (1928). After him are J. D. Vance (1984), O. Henry (1862), Ivanka Trump (1981), Henry Miller (1891), Coen brothers (null), and Margaret Mitchell (1900).

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