John Fante





John Fante

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born
in Boulder, Colorado, The United States
April 08, 1909

died
May 08, 1983

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About this author

Fante's early years were spent in relative poverty. The son of an Italian born father, Nicola Fante, and an Italian-American mother, Mary Capolungo, Fante was educated in various Catholic schools in Boulder, Colorado and briefly attended the University of Colorado.

In 1929, he dropped out of college and moved to Southern California to concentrate on his writing. He lived and worked in Wilmington, Long Beach, and in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California.

He is known to be one of the first writers to portray the tough times faced by many writers in L.A. His work and style has influenced such similar authors as "Poet Laureate of Skid Row" Charles Bukowski and influential beat writer Jack Kerouac. He was proclaimed by Time...more


Average rating: 4.09 · 20,878 ratings · 1,237 reviews · 29 distinct works · Similar authors
Ask the Dust
by
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 9,050 ratings — published 1939 — 41 editions
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 3,413 ratings — published 1938 — 28 editions
The Road to Los Angeles
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,844 ratings — published 1985 — 18 editions
Dreams from Bunker Hill
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,411 ratings — published 1982 — 20 editions
The Brotherhood of the Grape
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 1,350 ratings — published 1977 — 17 editions
1933 Was a Bad Year
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 874 ratings — published 1985 — 15 editions
The Wine of Youth
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 772 ratings — published 1940 — 13 editions
Full of Life
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 690 ratings — published 1952 — 19 editions
West of Rome
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 775 ratings — published 1985 — 21 editions
The Big Hunger
by
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
More books by John Fante…
“You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.”
John Fante, Ask the Dust

“So fuck you, Los Angeles, fuck your palm trees, and your highassed women, and your fancy streets, for I am going home, back to Colorado, back to the best damned town in the USA - Boulder, Colorado.”
John Fante

“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!”
John Fante

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