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Oct 20, 2017 · John Dos Passos. John Dos Passos ca. 1955. (Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images) Drawing on his experiences while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, John Dos Passos produced in the novel Three Soldiers a disillusioned view of the war and the military that established him as an important voice of a new American literary generation.
Sep 29, 1970 · BALTIMORE, Sept. 28—John Dos Passos, the novelist of the post‐World War I generation who wrote more than 30 books, including the trilogy “U.S.A.,” died today in his apartment. Mr. Dos ...
A: “The Big Money” is the final installment of John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy, exploring the lives of several characters navigating the societal and economic turbulence of early 20th-century America. It critiques the American Dream, capitalism, and the socio-political landscape of the 1920s and early 1930s through a mix of fiction and ...
John Dos Passos. , The Art of Fiction No. 44. Interviewed by David Sanders. Issue 46, Spring 1969. John Dos Passos. Shortly after John Dos Passos had completed the three volumes of U.S.A. in 1936, Jean-Paul Sartre observed that he was “the greatest writer of our time.”. In 1939, a New Masses reviewer attacked his novel, Adventures of a ...
Nov 11, 2004 · Dos Passos: A Life. Dos Passos. : Virginia Spencer Carr. Northwestern University Press, Nov 11, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 624 pages. A New York Times Notable Book. An intimate biography of a great American writer. He rose from a childhood as the illegitimate son of a financial titan to become the man Sartre called "the greatest writer ...
Sep 16, 2012 · Dos Passos very kindly answered a letter of mine and suggested several sources for the kind of material in which I had expressed an interest. 4. Wrenn, p. 8. 5. “The Political Development of John Dos Passos,” Antioch Review, X (March 1950), 85. 6. Introduction to John Dos Passos, District of Columbia (Boston, 1938), p. viii. 7. Hicks, p. 90. 8.
Involved in many radical political movements, Dos Passos saw the expansion of consumer capitalism in the first decades of the twentieth century as a dangerous threat to the health of the nation. The son of unmarried Portuguese American parents, Dos Passos grew up in Chicago. He attended prestigious East Coast schools, first the Choate School ...
