Wait Until Spring, Bandini

About John Fante

Born in Denver on 8 April 1909 John Fante migrated to Los Angeles in his early twenties. Classically out of place in a town built on celluloid dreams Fante's literary fiction was full of torn grace and redemptive vengeance. Wait Until Spring Bandini (1938) his first novel began the saga of Arturo Bandini a character whose story continues in The Road to Los Angeles Ask the Dust and Dreams from Bunker Hill - collectively known as The Bandini Quartet. Fante published several other novels as well as stories novellas and screenplays in his seventy-four years including The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) and 1933 Was A Bad Year (posthumously 1985). He was posthumously recognised in 1987 with a Lifetime Achievement Award by PEN in Los Angeles four years after his death from diabetes-related complications.