John Fante

8 April 1909 – 8 May 1983

John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent. By far, his most popular novel is the semi-autobiographical *Ask the Dust*, the third book in what is now referred to as "The Saga of Arturo Bandini" or "The Bandini Quartet". Bandini served as his alter ego in a total of four novels: *Wait Until Spring, Bandini* (1938), *The Road to Los Angeles* (chronologically, this is the first novel Fante wrote but it was unpublished until 1985), *Ask the Dust* (1939), and finally *Dreams from Bunker Hill* (1982), which was dictated to his wife, Joyce, towards

• Ask the dust
• Wait until spring, Bandini
• Ask the Dust (P.S.)
• Dreams from Bunker Hill
• The brotherhood of the grape
• The road to Los Angeles
• 1933 was a bad year
• Full of life
• The wine of youth
• Pregúntale al polvo
• Selected letters, 1932-1981
• Bandini