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Portrait of Mario Puzo Photo: Yann Gamblin/Paris Match via Getty Images (1996)

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Puzo, Mario

Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author born in a slum known as Hell’s Kitchen on Manhattan, New York. His parents were both immigrants from Pietradefusi in the Avellino province, Italy. He had a difficult upbringing, especially after his father abandoned the family at the beginning of the 1930s and left his wife to care for their seven children on her own. Puzo won grants so he could attend C...

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Portrait of Marcello Fois Photo: Dread83 (2008) CC BY 3.0

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Fois, Marcello

Marcello Fois is an Italian author and playwright born in Nuoro, Sardinia. He grew up on the island and later attended the University of Bologna, graduating in 1986. He still lives in Bologna, although he spends extended periods in Sardinia. Fois wrote his first novel in 1989, and after some difficulties finding a publisher it was published as Ferro recente in 1992. By that time Fois had...

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