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- ↑ Fante, D. (2011). Fante: A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving. Harper Perennial.
- ↑ Cooper, S. (2000). Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante . New York: North Point Press. p. 142-45.
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