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John Roderigo Dos Passos ( / dɒsˈpæsəs, - sɒs /; [1] [2] January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy . Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visiting Europe and southwest Asia, where he learned about literature, art ...
John Dos Passos (born Jan. 14, 1896, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Sept. 28, 1970, Baltimore, Md.) was an American writer, one of the major novelists of the post-World War I “lost generation.” His reputation as a social historian and as a radical critic of the quality of American life rests primarily on his trilogy U.S.A.
Dec 22, 2021 · SUMMARY. John Dos Passos was a novelist, poet, critic, and painter whose mother was born in Virginia. He came of age traveling through Europe and, after graduating from Harvard University in 1916, served as an ambulance driver during World War I (1914–1918). Amid the destruction of Victorian Europe, Dos Passos developed left-leaning politics ...
Oct 20, 2017 · John Dos Passos. 1896–1970. John Dos Passos ca. 1955. (Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images) Major works: Three Soldiers • Manhattan Transfer • The U.S.A. Trilogy: The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money. Drawing on his experiences while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, John Dos Passos produced in the novel Three Soldiers a ...
Dec 29, 2019 · “U.S.A. is the slice of a continent,” John Dos Passos wrote, in his novel “The 42nd Parallel,” from 1930. “U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a ...
THE 42ND PARALLEL, 1930. The first volume in what would become Dos Passos’s most famous work, the trilogy U.S.A., The 42nd Parallel introduces grand innovations in the form and content of American literature. The author chronicles the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, as the country angsts for attention on the world stage.
John Roderigo Dos Passos, son of John Randolph Dos Passos, was an American novelist and artist. He received a first-class education at The Choate School, in Connecticut, in 1907, under the name John Roderigo Madison.
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