"1936Z"^^ . "1983-05-08Z"^^ . . . . "Fante, John"@en . "0266899" . . "1909-04-08Z"^^ . . "1909Z"^^ . . . "1983Z"^^ . . . "John Fante"@en . . "Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter" . . . "John Fante (April 8, 1909 \u2013 May 8, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent. His 1939 work Ask the Dust, a semi-autobiograpical novel about life in and around Los Angeles, California, was the third in a series of four novels, published between 1938 and 1985, that are now collectively called \"The Bandini Quartet\". That book was made into a movie of the same name in 2006."@en . .