Fante, John

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 700+ words | Copyright

Fante, John (1909–83), novelist long resident in California, the setting of his fiction, including Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938) and Ask the Dust (1939), novels of Italian‐American workers; Full of Life (1952), a light tale of a man's adjustment to his wife's pregnancy; and Bravo Burro (1969). Dago Red (1940) prints stories of an Italian‐American family in Fante's native Colorado and was retitled in the 1980s The Wine of Youth. His later career was that of a screenwriter but he became blind (1978) and his last authorship was dictated. Results include the novels The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977), Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982), and West of Rome (1986). Two novellas appeared in The Road to Los Angeles (1985), derived in part from a novel written in the 1930s.

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