by Valerio Viale

John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an American fiction writer and screenwriter. He was born in Denver, Colorado, to his father, Nicola Fante – emigrated to the States from Torricella Peligna (small town in Abruzzo) – and his mother, Mary Capolungo.

Upon dropping out of the University of Colorado in 1929, he moved to Southern California, to pursue a writing career. Ten years later, John published his most popular semi-autobiographical novel, Ask the Dust (1939), about the hardship endured during the Great Depression in Los Angeles.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano