• Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante - John Fante's official biography by Stephen Cooper
• John Fante & H.L. Mencken: A Personal Correspondance (1989)

Books by John Fante

• Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938)
• Ask the Dust (1939) - the second part of the Bandini saga, a tormented, passionate love story in depresson-ridden Los Angeles...
• Dago Red (1940) reprinted as The Wine of Youth
• Full of Life (1952)
• The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977)
• Dreams From Bunker Hill (1982)
• The Road to Los Angeles (1985)
• 1933 Was a Bad Year (1985)
• The Wine of Youth (1985)
• West of Rome (1986)
• Selected Letters 1932-1981 (1991)
• The Big Hunger (2002)

Movies

• Ask the Dust, 2006, - directed by Robert Towne, starring Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland
• Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1990) - directed by Dominique Deruddere, starring Joe Mantegna, Ornella Muti, Faye Dunaway, with Michael Bacall as Arturo - Warner Bros.
• Full of Life - released 10 June 1957 (Sweden) - directed by Richard Quine, screenplay by John Fante, starring Judy Holliday, Richard Conte, Salvatore Baccaloni (II), Esther Minciotti, Joe DeSantis - produced by Fred Kohlmar