Dreams from Bunker Hill (12 page)

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.

Meanwhile, Fante had been occupied extensively in screen-writing. 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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DREAMS FROM BUNKER HILL
. Copyright © 1982 by John Fante. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

First Ecco edition published 2002.

Library of Congress has catalogued a previous edition as:

Fante, John, 1909–1983

Dreams from Bunker Hill.

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EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-201306-4

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