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- Born in Chicago, Dos Passos was the illegitimate son of John Randolph Dos Passos (1844–1917), a lawyer of half- Madeiran Portuguese descent, and Lucy Addison (Sprigg) Madison of Petersburg, Virginia.
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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 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.
- Susan Ritchie
Apr 18, 1983 · Dos Passos, Down Home. Folks of the Northern Neck Remember 'Mr. Jack'. By Megan Rosenfeld. April 17, 1983 at 7:00 p.m. EST. HAGUE, Va. -- Once the lights were off in the Cople Primary School ...
Article History. John Dos Passos. In full: John Roderigo Dos Passos. Born: Jan. 14, 1896, Chicago, Ill., U.S. Died: Sept. 28, 1970, Baltimore, Md. (aged 74) Notable Works: “1919” “Adventures of a Young Man” “District of Columbia” “Manhattan Transfer” “The 42nd Parallel ” “The Big Money” “U.S.A.” (Show more)
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John Randolph Dos Passos is born in Philadephia. His father, Manoel dos Passos, is an immigrant from the island of Madeira off the Portuguese coast. His mother, Lucy Catell, hails from New Jersey. John Randolph Dos Passos, noted American lawyer and author. (Photo courtesy Library of Congress)
“Fittingly emerging from the Dos Passos Cultural Centre in Madeira, where Dos Passos’ paternal family originated, this valuable collection looks both backward in time—at the writer’s sense of place in Portugal and of displacement in America; at texts and aesthetic movements that influenced him—and forward—at ongoing critical and social issues of genre, gender, ethnicity ...
Dos Passos was interviewed in 1968 on his farm, Spence’s Point, on the Northern Neck of Virginia, a sandy, piney strip of land between the Rappahannock and the Potomac. The state highway in from U.S. 301 passes turnoffs to the birthplaces of Washington and Monroe.
