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Occupation. Author. playwright. Nationality. American. Parents. John Fante. Joyce Fante. Daniel Smart Fante (February 19, 1944 – November 23, 2015) was an American author and playwright.
Nov 25, 2015 · The countercultural hero and self-styled ‘gin pissing, raw meat, dual carburetor V-8 son-of-a-bitch from Los Angeles’ died on Monday. Ben Myers. Wed 25 Nov 2015 12.52 EST. Dan Fante, who died...
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November 25, 2015 @ 6:11 PM. Author Dan Fante, who boozed, scrapped and wrote his way out of the considerable shadow cast by his father and fellow novelist John Fante, died Saturday. He was...
Feb 16, 2019 · Remembering Dan Fante. By Douglas Mallon. I met Dan Fante at one of the darkest times in my life. I didn’t know who he was, what he’d done, or who his father was either. I’d never read Ask The Dust — the seminal American novel I now hold to be one of the two most beautiful novels ever written. ( All Quiet On The Western Front being the ...
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.
Sep 29, 2009 · Novelist and playwright Dan Fante writes about alcoholism, drug addiction and failed attempts at literary success — all of which he has experienced himself.
