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  <name><![CDATA[John Fante]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Born in Colorado, 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 &quot;Poet Laureate of Skid Row&quot; Charles Bukowski and influential beat writer Jack Kerouac. He was proclaimed by Time Out magazine as one of Americas “criminally neglected writers.&quot;]]></about>      <hometown>Colorado</hometown>  <born_at>04/08/1909</born_at>  <died_at>05/08/1983</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Ask the Dust]]></title>
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  <ratings_count>1965</ratings_count>
  <published>1939</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Wait Until Spring, Bandini]]></title>
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  <published>1983</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Road to Los Angeles]]></title>
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  <published>1985</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Dreams from Bunker Hill]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Fante]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[1933 Was a Bad Year]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Fante]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Brotherhood of the Grape]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Fante]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Wine of Youth: Selected Stories]]></title>
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  <published>1984</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Full of Life]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Fante]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[West of Rome: Two Novellas]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Fante]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Big Hunger: Stories 1932-1959]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Fante]]></name>
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