《教父》的作者普索(Mario Puzo),1978年在美国出版新作《愚人之死》(FOOLS DIE),又是一本受到读者欢迎的畅销书。小说的主人公作家麦林,从三岁起便和他的哥哥在孤儿院里生活。哥哥成年后离开孤儿院,他也从孤儿院出走。随后他虚报年龄当了兵。战后复员进了学校,学习写作,立志做一个作家。他和一个女同学结婚之后,在纽约管理陆军后备役兵役的机关里谋到一个小差事,白 Mario Puzo, the Godfather’s author, published his new book FOOLS DIE in the United States in 1978, and is a popular book bestseller. The novel’s hero writer Marlene, from the age of three and his brother lived in an orphanage. Older brother left the orphanage, he also left the orphanage. He later became a soldier when he was false. After the war demobilized into the school, study writing, determined to be a writer. After he got married with a female student, he managed to find a small job in New York’s body that managed the Army’s reserve military service.