Puzo stated that this story came from research into organized crime, not from personal experience, and that he was looking to write something that would appeal to the masses. In 1969, Puzo's best-known work, The Godfather, was published. Under the pen name Mario Cleri, Puzo wrote World War II adventure features for magazine True Action. In 1960, Bruce Jay Friedman hired Puzo as an assistant editor of a group of men's pulp magazines with titles such as Male, Men. After the war, he wrote his first book, The Dark Arena, which was published in 1955. In 1950, his first short story, 'The Last Christmas,' was published in American Vanguard. When Erika died of breast cancer at the age of 58 in 1978, her nurse, Carol Gino, became Puzo's companion. Puzo married a German woman, Erika, with whom he had five children.

He served in the US Army Air Forces in Germany in World War II, and later graduated from the City College of New York. When Puzo was 12, his father, who worked as a trackman for the New York Central Railroad, was committed to the Pilgrim State Hospital insane asylum for schizophrenia, and his wife, Maria, was left to raise their seven children. Puzo was born in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City to Italian immigrants from Pietradefusi, Province of Avellino, Campania. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 sequel. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. He is known for his 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. Mario Francis Puzo ( / ˈ p uː z oʊ/ Italian: Octo– July 2, 1999) was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist.

গডফাদার by Mario Puzo