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  2. 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. His father was married at the time and had a son several years older than John.

    • John Roderigo Dos Passos, January 14, 1896, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
  3. 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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  4. Oct 20, 2017 · 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.

  5. John Dos Passos is one of the most overtly political authors in this unit. 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.

  6. May 29, 2018 · The reputation of the American novelist John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896-1970) is based chiefly on his early work, especially the trilogy "U.S.A." John Dos Passos was born in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1896, the illegitimate son of a noted New York lawyer, John Randolph Dos Passos, and a wealthy Virginian, Lucy Addison Sprigg.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Dec 29, 2019 · Second Read. What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019. A Depression-era novel about American tumult has—perhaps unsurprisingly—aged quite well. By Matt Hanson. December 29, 2019.

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