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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 Laurie R. King Photo: Geoffrey Swaine/REX /TT (2010)

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King, Laurie R.

American author and theologian, born as Laurie Richardson in Oakland, California. The family moved several times within the state and lived in, among other places, Santa Cruz and San Jose before settling down in Tacoma on the outskirts of Washington in 1961. The parents separated, the mother moved to Saratoga in California and for several years, Laurie R. (Richardson) King shuttled between...

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