Mario puzo (1920-1999) was born in an Italian immigrant family in a slum of Manhattan, new york. His father was a railway worker in new york. Although from humble origins, it has nothing to do with the underworld. He likes reading books since he was a child, especially novels about Indian tribal wars in new york. When I was a teenager, I especially liked brothers karamazov and Idiot by Russian writer Dostoevsky, and I was good at observing life, which laid the foundation for his later creative career.

He served in the United States Army during World War II. After demobilization, he studied at new york New College and Columbia University. His first novel, The Arena of Darkness (1955), is regarded as the best novel to describe postwar Germany, while The Lucky Pilgrim (1964) is an autobiographical novel about Italian immigrants, which was called "a little classic" by The New York Times. These two novels were affirmed by critics after they were published. Although these works pay attention to practical problems and have profound thoughts, they are deeply favored by the author himself, but unfortunately they are not popular.

Pu Zuo has five children, and his life is very stressful. He frankly wrote popular novels because "I live in poverty, which is one of the driving forces to help me write and the way out of my life". When I wrote The Godfather, Puzo was 45 years old. He said, "I'm tired of being an artist. Besides, I still owe my relatives, financial companies, banks, various booksellers and usurers 20,000 yuan. It's really time for me to be mature and unruly. " Puzo spent three years writing The Godfather.

The Godfather became one of the best-selling novels in America in 1970s. The content is thrilling and the plot is compact, which is well received by readers all over the world. It has been popular all over the world for more than ten years. The novel was also adapted into a film of the same name by Paramount Film Company of the United States, directed by the famous director Coppola, which was divided into three episodes, and won the Best Film Award, Best Actor Award and Best Adapted Screenplay Award at the 45th Academy Awards.

But Puzo himself insists that this is not his best novel. Although it is a best seller, it has no real literary value. He even apologized to his fellow novelists for the great popularity of this novel, saying that this book, like cowboy novels in the west, is just a relic.

In addition to The Godfather, Puzo also wrote Death of a Fool (1978), The Fourth K of the Kennedy Family (1990), Sicily (1984) and The Last Godfather (/kloc-0

Puzo is also an excellent screenwriter. He compiled 1 to 3 episodes of The Godfather and wrote scripts for Superman, Earthquake, Cotton Club and other films. As the screenwriter of The Godfather, episode 1 and episode 2, he won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. Puzo also became famous.

Pu Zuo died of illness.