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John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in Depression-era Los Angeles .
Ask the Dust is the most popular novel of American author John Fante, first published in 1939 and set during the Great Depression era in Los Angeles. It is one of a series of novels featuring the character Arturo Bandini as Fante's alter ego, a young Italian-American from Colorado struggling to make it as a writer in Los Angeles.
John Dillinger: Lawrence Tierney: François Villon: François Villon: Serge Reggiani: The Dolly Sisters: Janszieka "Jenny" Dolly: Betty Grable: Rozsika "Rosie" Dolly: June Haver: The Great John L. John L. Sullivan: Greg McClure: God Is My Co-Pilot: Robert Lee Scott Jr. Dennis Morgan: Incendiary Blonde: Texas Guinan: Betty Hutton: Ivan the ...
According to the book Roots, Kunta Kinte was born circa 1750 in the Mandinka village of Jufureh, in the Gambia.He was raised in a Muslim family. [4] [5] In 1767, while Kunta was searching for wood to make a drum for himself, four men chased him, surrounded him, and took him captive.
Renn Woods (born Ren Woods; January 1, 1958) is an American film, television and stage actress, vocalist and songwriter.She is best known for her role as Fanta in Roots, for her performance of "Aquarius" in the film version of Hair (1979) [1] and as Edie in the TV series Beauty and the Beast (1987–1989).
Ford was born John Martin "Jack" Feeney (though he later often gave his given names as Seán Aloysius, sometimes with surname O'Feeny or Ó Fearna; an Irish language equivalent of Feeney) in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, to John Augustine Feeney and Barbara "Abbey" Curran, on February 1, 1894, [8] (though he occasionally said 1895 and that date is erroneously inscribed on his tombstone). [9]
John Forsythe (January 29, 1918 – April 1, 2010) was an American stage, film/television actor, producer, narrator, drama teacher and philanthropist whose career spanned six decades. [1] He also appeared as a guest on several talk and variety shows and as a panelist on numerous game shows.
John Simmons Barth (/ b ɑːr θ /; [1] May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical retelling of Maryland's colonial history; Giles Goat-Boy, a satirical fantasy in which a university is a microcosm of the ...