About the Author
JOHN FANTE was born in Colorado in 1909. He attended parochial school in Boulder, and Regis High School, a Jesuit boarding school. He also attended the University of Colorado and Long Beach City College.
Fante began writing in 1929 and published his first short story in The American Mercury in 1932. He published numerous stories in The Atlantic Monthly, The American Mercury, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Esquire, and Harper’s Bazaar. His first novel, Wait Until Spring, Bandini was published in 1938. The following year Ask the Dust appeared, and in 1940 a collection of his short stories, Dago Red, was published and is now collected in The Wine of Youth.
Meanwhile, Fante had been occupied extensively in screenwriting. Some of his credits include Full of Life, Jeanne Eagels, My Man and I, The Reluctant Saint, Something for a Lonely Man, My Six Loves and Walk on the Wild Side.
John Fante was stricken with diabetes in 1955 and its complications brought about his blindness in 1978, but he continued to write by dictation to his wife, Joyce, and the result was Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982). He died at the age of 74 on May 8, 1983.
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Other Books by John Fante
The Saga of Arturo Bandini:
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
The Road to Los Angeles
Ask the Dust
Dreams from Bunker Hill
Full of Life
The Brotherhood of the Grape
The Wine of Youth: Selected Stories of John Fante
1933 Was a Bad Year
The Big Hunger: Stories 1932-1959
Selected Letters 1932-1981
The John Fante Reader
Copyright
FULL OF LIFE. Copyright © 1952, 1988 by John Fante.
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EPub Edition © APRIL 2010 ISBN: 978-0-062-01307-1
First Ecco edition 2002
Previously published by Black Sparrow Press
The Library of Congress has catalogued a previous edition as follows: Fante, John, 1909-1983
Full of life / John Fante.
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PS3511.A594F85 1988
813’.52 – dcl9
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