# Mario Puzo

> He wrote The Godfather to get out of debt, then won two Oscars adapting it with Coppola. The novel that defined how the world pictures organized crime came from a guy who'd never met a mobster.

*American author, screenwriter, and journalist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/mario-puzo

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1920-10-15
- **Died:** 1999-07-02
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Mario Francis Puzo was born October 15, 1920, and spent decades writing without much money or notice. The Godfather arrived in 1969—a crime novel about the Italian-American Mafia that he'd researched entirely from books and news clippings, no field work. It became a sensation. Francis Ford Coppola brought him in to co-write the screenplay, and they won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1972, then again for Part II in 1974. Between Mafia sequels Puzo wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 follow-up. He continued writing crime novels about the Sicilian Mafia until his death on July 2, 1999; his last, The Family, came out posthumously in 2001.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 65.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.9 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 26.2 / 100
- **Now attention:** 4.6 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0701374/ (@nm0701374)
- **WEBSITE**: http://mariopuzo.com

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Fiction, #Screenwriting, #Literature, #United States, #Americas, #20th Century

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