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John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in Depression-era Los Angeles .
John Fante Average rating: 4.06 · 83,278 ratings · 5,583 reviews · 51 distinct works • Similar authors Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3) by
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.
Apr 30, 2024 · John Fante was a U.S. writer. Born to Italian immigrant parents, Fante moved to Los Angeles in the early 1930s. His first novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), was followed by his best-known book, Ask the Dust (1939), the first of his novels set in Depression-era California.
Fante's narrator--destitute twenty year old boy Arturo Bandini struggling against hunger, wanting and creative resistance--lacks the worldliness of John Steinbeck's Depression-era men and would've done well to read The Grapes of Wrath and grow up. His story is as bare as a cupboard, but Fante's language and the atmosphere he conjures are ...
John Fante has 51 books on Goodreads with 178361 ratings. John Fante’s most popular book is Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3).
John Fante was born in Denver, Colorado, on 8 th April 1909. His father had emigrated to the US from Abruzzo eight years earlier. His first novel, The Road to Los Angeles, was completed in 1935 but only published after his death (in 1985).
