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John Dos Passos. John Dos Passos, the illegitimate son of a prominent American attorney, John Randolph Dos Passos Jr., was born in Chicago in 1896. His mother was Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison. Alan Wald has argued: "Dos Passos spent his early years traveling semi-clandestinely about the United States and abroad with his mother.
John Dos Passos was a political activist and author of over 40 novels, many of which critiqued America during the early 20th century. Read about how his political and personal experiences inspired ...
John dos Passos was an American writer and playwright, born in Chicago in 1896. He is best known for his innovative, politically charged novels of the early 20th century, including "Three Soldiers" and "U.S.A." trilogy. In his personal life, dos Passos was educated at Harvard University, where he studied architecture before turning his focus to ...
Sep 4, 2022 · My latest discovery is one what I should have realized long ago–that writing truly is a family tradition among the Dos Passos family. My great-grandfather John Randolph Dos Passos (1844-1917), aka “John R.,” aka “The Commodore,” wrote A Treatise on the Law of Stockbrokers and Stock Exchanges (1882), The Inter-State Commerce Act (1887 ...
John Rodrigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 — September 28, 1970) was an important twentieth-century American novelist and artist. He was both a social and artistic revolutionary, supporting socialist causes while helping to redefine narrative fictional techniques. However, after a trip to the Soviet Union he began to distance himself from the ...
John Dos Passos. The writer who is celebrated for his historical triple novel, U.S.A ., was born in a Chicago hotel. Both of his parents were already married to other people—His father was a New York corporation lawyer of Portuguese descent; his mother was from an esteemed Virginia family. The boy and his mother lived mainly in hotels in ...
U.S.A., 1938. At his literary best in the trilogy U.S.A., Dos Passos satirizes America’s worst bankers, presidents, and public relations men. Instead of following his peers’ lead and writing one charismatic frontman to attack his themes, Dos Passos paints American society as protagonist. His criticism, trained on every strata of society ...
