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The trilogy was written in the period when Dos Passos placed himself unequivocally on the political Left, [citation needed] before the major political shift which characterized his later career. Dos Passos portrays the everyday situations of the characters before, during, and after World War I, with special attention to the social and economic ...
John Roderigo Dos Passos (/ d ɒ s ˈ p æ s ə s,-s ɒ s /; [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 ...
Adventures of a Young Man is a 1939 novel by John Dos Passos, which eventually became the first in this writer's District of Columbia Trilogy. The novel, which tells of a disillusioned young American radical who fights on the side of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and is killed during the war, is contemporary with ...
Manhattan Transfer is an American novel by John Dos Passos published in 1925. It focuses on the development of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age as told through a series of overlapping individual stories. It is considered to be one of Dos Passos' most important works.
World in a Glass – A View of Our Century From the Novels of John Dos Passos (1966) The Portugal Story (1969) Easter Island: Island of Enigmas (1970)
The John Dos Passos trilogy U.S.A. is published, containing his novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936). Samuel Beckett is stabbed in the chest in Paris and nearly killed. February 21 – The gay American writer and composer Paul Bowles marries the lesbian American writer Jane Auer at a Reformed Church in Manhattan.
Steinmetz is featured in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy in one of the biographies. [46] [47] He also serves as a major character in Starling Lawrence's The Lightning Keeper. [48] Steinmetz is a major character in the novel Electric City by Elizabeth Rosner. In the 1944 Three Stooges short "Busy Buddies", Moe Howard references Steinmetz. [49]
Big Money, a novel by John Dos Passos, part of his U.S.A. trilogy; Music "Big Money" (Game song), a 2011 song by Game from The R.E.D. Album