Former name: Mario Puzo Born: October 15, 1920 Manhattan, New York, USA Died: July 2, 1999 New York, USA Nationality: American Occupation: Actor, Writer, Editor Writing Period: 1955-1999 Genre: Crime Fiction Discipline: Mafia Work of Representation: The Godfather Notable awards: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Spouse: Lina Broske (1946-1978) Children: Anthony Chang Puzo, Joseph Puzo Children: The Godfather (1946-1978) Best Adapted Screenplay Spouse: Lina broske (1946-1978) Children: Truong Beng Luong Puzo, Joseph Puzo, Nguyen Duc Huy Anto Puzo, Virginia Erica Puzo, Eugene Puzo
Mario Puzo was born into an immigrant family. Puzo was born into an immigrant family in New York City in the area known as Hell's Kitchen. His father was a railroad trackman.Puzo lived with his six siblings in the aforementioned railroad yards. Puzo discovered public **** libraries and world literature, dominating in the direction of writing. Mario Puzo
During World War II, Puzo served in the United States Air Force stationed in East Asia and Germany. After the war, he stayed in Germany as a civilian public **** relations with the Men's Air Force. He then studied at the New School for Social Research, New York, at Columbia University. During this time he took classes in literature and creative writing. In 1946, he married Erica and they had five children. His first published story, The Last Christmans, appeared in the American Vanguard in 1950. Puzo worked for 20 years as an administrative assistant in government offices in New York and overseas. In 1946, he married Erika Lina, their three sons and two daughters. Puzo's first book, Dark-Skinned Stage, appeared in 1955, when he was 35. The novel dealt with the relationship between Walter Mosca, a tough and bitter ex-kei, and Hela, a German native and his mistress. She dies of an infection, denying the drugs that would have saved her, and Mosca avenges her. From 1963 Puzo worked as a freelance gun journalist and writer. He wrote for men's magazines, among them Stag and Male, and published book reviews, stories, and articles in such periodicals as Redbook, Vacation, Book World, and The New York Times. In 1965 the Lucky Pilgrims appeared, followed by a family of Italian immigrants from the late 1920s through World War II. The plot centers around an Italian peasant woman, twice widowed, in St. Lucia, her view of the American dream, and juxtaposes her honest and determined progress with a corrupt mountaineer. None of Puzo's first two books were financial successes, although both received favorable reviews. Both were translated into other languages. Puzo's fourth work, The Summer of the Runaway, by Mr. Jushaw (1966), was a children's book. After an expensive medical emergency-a gallbladder attack-Puzzo decided that writing a book would also be a commercial success. While working in pulp journalism, he had heard Mafia palimpsests and he began to gather material for use on East Coast branches. Love, crime, domestic servitude, and old-world values were respectively further developed in Puzo's novel The Godfather (1969), his international breakthrough, a story rooted in the mafia, corruption, violence, and honor. The central character, Don Corleone, is a sensual robber, individualistic and relentlessly calamitous within the tightly structured crime syndicate. His values are once 'domestic' and anti-social. Puzo describes Don Corleone's struggles amongst the power of the mob bosses, and how family values are pressurized by the generation to come, and how they are changing society under. Puzo also mentions real-life events and people to whom the word has parallels, with the famous singer Frank Sinatra, who was verbally attacked by the author in a tavern in 1972. With this book Puzo achieves its financial goals, but he also recognizes his gift when he writes the following. Mario Puzo
Puzo's international bestseller also fits on the screen. Director Francis Ford Coppola did not like the book at first, but his movie, The Godfather of Godfather and Part II, received several Oscars, including best picture and best screenplay. Production was difficult. Before filming began, the Italian-American Civil Rights League held a rally at Madison Square Garden and offered $600,000 towards an attempt to block the movie. Eventually Coppola agreed to cancel the change of use to 'Mafia'. Nostra from the script. Coppola's non-linear narrative technique and lightning in the Godfather II confused the critics. In 1978, it was set up in Las Vegas, Hollywood, Tokyo, New York and in the fifties and sixties. The protagonist in the story is a dishonest science fiction writer who believes himself to be a modern-day magician. Eventually merlyn wrote one of the best novels of all time which became a hugely profitable movie. Readers may find the workaimless and dull. Sicily (1984) is based on the life of Salvatore Grino, the so-called Robin Hood of Sicily. Puzo's career, later from the 1990s, included Quarter K (1991), a global political thriller in spirit, with von Forsythe and Ken Follett. In the past Don (1996) Puzo returned to the world of the Chevalier. The head of the most powerful Mafia family in the country, Don Clericuzio, decides to take his business to the law, and the story follows how Don plans for the future success of his family. The Last Godfather
Clerucuzio's daughter Rosemary marries one of the members of the family of enemies, and she gives birth to a son who grows up to be a rough man. The other central characters are Pimpi Delena, an assassin, and his son, Crossover. Puzo died of heart failure on July 1999 at his home on Long Island, complete after his final organized crime book, omerta, appeared in July 2000. In the story Puzo depicts a family whose members legally represent the world and organized crime. The last right and wrong side of the law comes back into conflict. His last years puzo spent collecting material and writing about the family, dealing with the machinations of the Ergias, the masters of the house and one of the most influential families in Renaissance Italy. "Families don't read novels like Mario? Puzo's novels, even the smaller one. The work of such historical depth needs to have strong, interesting dialog and stronger characters to provide it - very qualities that always raise the work of Puzo to a plane. Neither exists here."
Literary: The Godfather, The Godfather 2 (The Return of the Godfather), The Fourth K, Absolute Proof, Black Market, Boss of New York, The Sicilian, Death of a Fool Filmography: The Godfather 3 (The Last Godfather), Superman, The Cotton Club Prose: The Godfather's Papers and Other Confessions (1977), Inside Las Vegas ( 1977) The Godfather is a full-length novel published in the United States in 1969, and is the number one bestseller in American publishing history, having been on the bestseller lists for 70 consecutive weeks and selling 20 million copies in 37 years. As early as in the early seventies has been made into a movie, distribution of the world, by the universal popularity, according to the novel based on the three films, two of them won the Oscar. The story of The Godfather offers a certain element of gruesome pleasure rooted in the American mind, giving the reader a close-up view of a shockingly dark and violent outlaw class, and offering the reader a feast of a menacing way of life. A classic of gangster storytelling!