Biography
Mario Piezo is called the father of the Great Father. An American of Italian origin wrote the famous novel about Mafia, which lay down the basic film Coppola. After the release of the book, Mario Puezo woke up with a famous and wealthy, and when the painting "Great Father" appeared on the screens - World Glory collapsed on the American Italian origin.Childhood and youth
Puzo was born in the fall of 1920 in New York, in Manhattan. Childhood and youth Mario passed in the most infant area between the 34th and 50th streets, which was called "hellish cuisine."
In the 2000s, the area where the future author of the novel about gangsters appeared and grew up - a safe and safe place, and in the 1920s and 30th shootouts and gangster disassembly were considered ordinary things here. The mafia clans controlled pubs, restaurants and shops, and the parents of Mario Pujo - Italian immigrants, who collapsed in America from the province under Naples, had to look after numerous offspring.
But Mario is the youngest of the children and the only common son (his father took Mamo Mamio with four children from the previous marriage) - the fears did not cause. The boy turned out to be the most calm and balanced in a noisy house, showing indifference to street life. He clogged with a book in a quiet corner, hiding from the ever-fermented relatives, and disappeared.
Father - Shooter on the railway - saw in the son of the successor, but Mario hated train stations and trains, was afraid of railway beeps and a screaming crowd. When the son turned 12, his father left the family. Mom, grabbing five children, moved to Bronx. Mario sighed with relief: the prospect of becoming a move on the railway dropped.
After graduating from school, Puzo decided to become a military. When the Second World War was sank, the 19-year-old Italian signed up in the army, but did not get to the front - brought vision. The young man was scheduled to work in Hozbok. With a regiment as part of the American Air Force, Mario visited Asia, and then in Germany.
After the end of the war, Puzo entered the private university of New York, then he continued to education at the prestigious Columbia University in Manhattan. Having received a higher education, Mario Puzo got a clerk in a government institution, where he worked for 20 years. In the early 1960s he worked for a freelance journalist.
Literature
The creative biography of the writer and the screenwriter originates in the 1960s: he worked on a journalistic field and became interested in fissure. The first books of Mario Puezo were published in Russia in the 1990s, after triumph of film mafia.
The first novel, called the "Arena Mraka", 35-year-old writer was published in 1955. The story of the love of the American soldier and the German girl is in many ways autobiographical - with the first spouse Mario Pujo met in Germany. The debut of the novice writer passed unnoticed.
The second novel called the "Happy Page" Puzo decided to publish only after 10 years. And again the excursion in the past: Italian immigrants became the heroes of the book, in search of a place under the sun in America, the period of the Great Depression. The second novel suffered the fate of the first - fame to the author did not add.
Mario Puzo did not give up. In the next - 1966 - on the shelves of bookstores lay down the novel "Summer Escape Davie Show" - the only composition of the novelist for adolescents, which he dedicated to five children.
In 1967, the writer published a detective "six graves on the way to Munich", hiding under the creative pseudonym Mario Clery. To the story about the American soldier, who is chasing for the former officers of the Gestapo, who is healing in torture and the death of his wife, readers remained indifferent.
Fortunately, Mario Puezo after so many literary fiasco did not lower his hands. Glory came to the writer under the curtain of the 1960s. The novel about the mafia family of immigrants from Italy and the noble Gangster Done Korleone turned into the main work of Puzo.
In the 1970s, the book "The Great Father" became a bestseller. The novelist did not assume such loud success. Later he admitted that he did not meet the prototype prototype of the main character: Puzo invented Don Vito, drawing information about the gangster disassembly and the laws of mafia from foreign books.
The novel about the mafia clan was bought by American readers of lightningry, the printing house did not have time to print new circulation. After 3 years, a 32-year-old director Francis Ford Coppola took Roman Puzo as the basis of the movie of the same name, turning the Italian-Americans in the legend.
The film School went to the screens in 1972 and received 3 Oscars (one figure went to Mario Puzo per scenario) and 5 "Golden Globes" (one - Puzo). At the budget of $ 6 million, the picture earned for a film studio and the creators of 268.5 million, turning the director, the scenario and the star cast in very wealthy people.
Mario Puzo transported a large family to a spacious mansion on the ocean coast, on Long Island. After 2 years, Puzo was awarded the second Oscar for the film sequel.
The unexpected glory found Mario surprise. Meaking on the deafening popularity of the essay, which he seemed to be low and unreasonably romantic, he spoke to journalists that the novel about the mafia is not the best essay from the written. A significant part (10% of the amount from the sale of the book) Mario Puzo gave his brother who supported the family during the work on the book.
Not many fans of the film-bestseller "The Godfather" is known that the author of the novel insisted on the candidate Marlon Brando. Paramaunt viewed the role of Lawrence Olivier, Anthony Quinna and Carlo Ponti. In the sporing dispute between Puzo and Coppil, rejected Brando, won a writer who threatened to take away the rights to the decree.
Mario Pujo appeared on the project's set, suggested and gave advice, met the starry composition of the painting - Marlon Brando, James Kanom, John Casal. With Brando, he was friends until the end of his life.
In 1978, the writer published a detective drama "Fools dying" about the world of gambling and the invisible side of the film industry. The action of the novel unfolds in Hollywood and Las Vegas. Mario Pyuzo This product called the best.
In 1984, the writer presented "Sicilian" fans - a novel about Bore for freedom of the island population with Mussolini regime. After 3 years, the film was released, where the main character - Salvatore - Played Christopher Lambert. The director of the painting was Michael Chimino.
The 1990th Mario Puzo "Opened" by the detective drama "Fourth Kennedy", which brought a commercial failure to the author. And in 1996, readers welcomed the Detective "Last Don" on the Mafiosis Clane of Sicilian Don Domenico Cleuriccio, who was trying to equip for children and grandchildren, without criminal disassembly. A year later, the novel was shielded. Danny Aiello played the main character in the mini-series.
Publications of the last two Romanov - "Omerta" and "Family" - Mario Puzo did not wait. On the shelves of book shops, the books fell in 2000 and 2001. "Omerta" - Roman-finale trilogy about mafia from Sicily. He brings the line under the plots of the "Cross Father" and "Sicilian".
Over the novel "Family", Puzo worked for more than 20 years, until the end of life, but did not have time to complete. The last point in the book was delivered by Carol Gino's wife. In Russia, the essay came under the name "First Don".
Personal life
With the first wife, Erica, a blonde German girl, Mario met in Frankfurt in 1945. Erica loved his good Okgikarika Puzo and went to America, confident that her husband would certainly make a military career. Seeing that the main passion of the spouse is a writhe, Erica felt disappointment. It strengthened after the release of the first failed pigeon novels.
After the release of the book about Sicilian gangsters, after the release of a book about Sicilian gangsters, caught Erica surprise. Shortly after the output of bestseller, his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. The writer accused of his wife's disease himself, believing that Eric broke and experienced a shock from sharp changes in life.
In the mid-1970s, Mario hired a nurse for his wife. Carol Gino cared for Erica for two years and made friends with Puzo children.
After the death of Erika in 1978, a novelist had repeatedly offered his hand in Karol and his heart repeatedly offered. Gino turned out to be not only a beautiful woman, made friends with the children of the writer, but also a colleague. Tale Gino Carol "Notes of the Nursery" warmly accepted readers and critics.
Mario Puzo lived with Carol 20 happy years. The novelist family became traditional Italian: the family lived in the family of two sons and daughters Mario.
Death
The cause of the death of Puzo was heart failure. The novelist died suddenly on the 79th year in July 1999.
The wife found Mario in his favorite chair in the house at Long Island, where he worked on the last novel.
Bibliography
- 1955 - "Arena Mraka"
- 1965 - "Happy Wanderer"
- 1966 - "Summer Escape Davy Show"
- 1967 - "Six graves on the way to Munich"
- 1969 - "Great Father"
- 1978 - "Fools die"
- 1984 - Sicilian
- 1991 - "Fourth Kennedy"
- 1996 - "Last Don"
- 2000 - "Omerta"
- 2001 - "Family"
Films (screening)
- 1972 - "Great Father"
- 1974 - "The Cross Father 2"
- 1987 - Sicilian
- 1988 - "Happy page"
- 1990 - "Great Father 3"
- 1997 - "Last Don"