Mario Francis Puzo (; Italian: [ËmaËrjo Ëputtso, -ddzo]; October 15, 1920 â 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...
