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Biography

Name: Mario Puzo
Birth Date: October 15, 1920
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Italian
Gender: Male

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Biography of Mario Puzo
2,984 words, approx. 10 pages
Mario Puzo is primarily a novelist, a storyteller of uncommon gifts whose American literary ancestors are the Naturalistic writers who focus on the American "cityscape," on the lower orders of the middle class, the streets, the resourcefulness, the...


Quotations
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Mario Puzo Quotes
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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Mario Puzo Information
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Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an Italian-American author known for his novels about the Mafia, especially The Godfather...


News and Journals
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The Independent - London
Obituaries: Mario Puzo
07/05/1999: 1,339 words, approx. 5 pages
MARIO PUZO'S The Godfather at once perpetuated and amended the stereotypical notion that all Italian-Americans are members of the Mafia. Unsurprisingly, many readers of The Godfather assumed Puzo had an insider's knowledge of the people and practices he portrayed with such ostensible authority,...
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The Washington Post
The Godfather; Mario Puzo, 1969
06/18/2000: 352 words, approx. 1 pages
Chosen by Francine Prose, whose most recent novel is Blue Angel. Not long ago I was asked to write an essay about a film I love, a movie that seemed to me to be one of the most important works of the century....
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The New York Observer
Tony\'d5s Blackout
6/12/2007: 417 words, approx. 1 pages
What rough beast is David Chase riding? He seems to have understood the mood of his nation better than anyone since Mario Puzo and Francis Coppola forecast the fate of the American empire in The Godfather. And he has world leaders mouthing his dialogue, day...
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The New York Observer
Vote or Die: Johnnie To\'d5s Gruesome Crime Elections Arrive
4/18/2007: 822 words, approx. 3 pages
Johnnie To’s Triad Election (2006) and Election (2005), both from screenplays by Nai-Hoi Yau and Tin-Shing Yip (in Cantonese with English subtitles), are receiving their American commercial release at Film Forum on Wednesday, April 25. The 52-year-old Mr. To has been directing, producing and writing...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Gerald Kingsland
381 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following review, Kingsland approves of Puzo's self-revelatory writings in The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions.


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