Mario Puzo
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1. Mario Francis Puzo was an
Italian-born American author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is most known
for his crime novels about the Italian-American and Sicilian mafias, including
The Godfather, which he later co-adapted into a Francis Ford Coppola film
trilogy. In 1972, he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the
first picture, and in 1974, for Part II. Puzo also penned the original
screenplays for Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980). In 2001, his final
novel - The Family, was published posthumously.