She was married to writer John Fante from 1937 to his death in 1983.
Her father was born in the small gold-mining Sierra Nevada town of Dutch Flat, son of Daniel Smart, who come to California in 1851 during the Gold Rush.
[1] Joyce Smart was raised in Roseville, California, and attended Stanford University.
Fante and Joyce Smart met on January 30, 1937, and got married on July 31 of that same year in Reno, Nevada.
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