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.