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John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in Depression-era Los Angeles .
Ask the Dust is the most popular novel of American author John Fante, first published in 1939 and set during the Great Depression era in Los Angeles. It is one of a series of novels featuring the character Arturo Bandini as Fante's alter ego, a young Italian-American from Colorado struggling to make it as a writer in Los Angeles.
John Fante Average rating: 4.06 · 83,278 ratings · 5,583 reviews · 51 distinct works • Similar authors Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3) by
Jun 3, 2009 · American novelist John Fante, whose novels celebrating the grittier side of Los Angeles are credited for inspiring the works of Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac, would have been 100 years old...
John Fante was born in Denver, Colorado, on 8 th April 1909. His father had emigrated to the US from Abruzzo eight years earlier. His first novel, The Road to Los Angeles, was completed in 1935 but only published after his death (in 1985).
Ask the Dust is the second and most famous of the Arturo Bandini quartet, a series of autobiographical novels by Italian-American author John Fante. The novel follows the coming-of-age of the young writer, Arturo Bandini, who moves from Colorado to Los Angeles in the late 1930s, at the age of twenty, to launch his career as an author. At the ...
Apr 30, 2024 · John Fante (born April 8, 1909, Denver, Colo., U.S. —died May 8, 1983, Woodland Hills, Calif.) was a U.S. writer. Born to Italian immigrant parents, Fante moved to Los Angeles in the early 1930s.
