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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 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. The son of a wealthy lawyer of Portuguese descent, Dos.
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John Dos Passos has 147 books on Goodreads with 105359 ratings. John Dos Passos’s most popular book is The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A., #1).
Jan 26, 1998 · John Dos Passos: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey. Paperback – January 26, 1998. "This is a sound, very full, altogether welcome biography of one of the strangest careers in American letters." -- Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review.
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Nov 1, 2010 · Further to scrutinizing Dos Passos s biographic aspects and literary innovations, the book also offers invaluable insights into the historiographical, ideological and social dimensions of the American (and to some extent European) society of the time, dominated by unprecedented social and political instability that shattered the American Dream ...
- Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu and Bernardo Guido de Vasconcelos
John Dos Passos: Biography and Critical Essays. The contributions in this book draw attention to the close, though sometimes ambiguous, relationship between biography, aesthetics, ideology, social critique and gender in Dos Passos’s writings.
Over his long and successful carreer, Dos Passos wrote forty-two novels, as well as poems, essays and plays, and created more than four hundred pieces of art. The John Dos Passos Prize is a literary award given annually by the Department of English and Modern Languages at Longwood University.
