Dreams from Bunker Hill

Name: Dreams from Bunker Hill
Author: John Fante

by John Fante

Novel spanning generations of Italian Americans dreaming of success and belonging

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John Fante

John Fante was an Italian American novelist from Colorado whose autobiographical fiction of his alter ego Arturo Bandini—Ask the Dust is the best known—depicted the Los Angeles literary bohemia of the 1930s with operatic passion. Charles Bukowski championed his work.

More by John Fante

Ask the DustNovel of an Italian American writer struggling to survive and create in Los Angeles
Wait Until Spring BandiniNovel about an Italian American family enduring hardship in Depression-era California
The Road to Los AngelesAutobiographical novel of a young man's journey to becoming a writer in Los Angeles
Full of LifeMemoir about the author's life with his wife and family in postwar America