• Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante Angel City Press, 2005, ISBN 9781883318581
• The Real Falstaff, Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War, Pen & Sword, 2010, ISBN 9781848841239

Editor

• Perspectives on John Huston, G.K. Hall, 1994, ISBN 9780816119851
• The Big Hunger: Stories 1932-1959 Black Sparrow Press, 2000, ISBN 9781574231205
• The John Fante Reader (Ecco Press 2003); HarperCollins, 2003, ISBN 9780060959487

Sadly, it is one of the curses of their trade that great novelists often lead lives that resemble bad novels. Like a romance novel or a mystery, the literary pantheon is populated by stock characters, contrived and crassly predictable. The most familiar and glorified of the bunch are the Brilliant Recluses, followed shortly by the Drunks and the Academics, the Testoseronic and the Effeminate, the Rustics and the Socialites, and the newest members to the club, the Great Young Authors, the Prodigies. Most romantic of all, however, is the Great Forgotten Author.