The Road to Los Angeles

Name: The Road to Los Angeles
Author: John Fante

by John Fante

Autobiographical novel of a young man's journey to becoming a writer in Los Angeles

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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.

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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
Full of LifeMemoir about the author's life with his wife and family in postwar America
Dreams from Bunker HillNovel spanning generations of Italian Americans dreaming of success and belonging