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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.
The U.S.A. trilogy is a series of three novels by American writer John Dos Passos, comprising the novels The 42nd Parallel (), Nineteen Nineteen and The Big Money ().The books were first published together in a volume titled U.S.A. by Modern Library in 1937.
Editor’s Note: Fifty years ago today, the great American novelist John Dos Passos, a frequent contributor to National Review, passed away in Baltimore. To honor his legacy, NR is reprinting this ...
The land at Spence's Point was a large parcel that the father of John Dos Passos purchased in 1885, and the Sandy Neck house is where Dos Passos spent his childhood. In 1942, after he achieved prominence as one of the most influential writers of his generation, Dos Passos purchased a portion of the original property and restored the brick ...
He was also befriended by John Dos Passos, who was his closest American counterpart both as a world traveler (even more than Hemingway) and in his adaptation of Cendrars's cinematic uses of montage in writing, most notably in his great trilogy of the 1930s, U.S.A. [17] One of the most gifted observers of the times, Dos Passos brought Cendrars ...
David McCullough (US, 1933–2022) – Harry S. Truman, John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt; Merle Miller (US, 1919–1986) – Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson; James McGrath Morris (US, born 1954) – Joseph Pulitzer, Charles Chapin, Ethel Payne, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos; Miyoshi Kiyotsura (Jp, 847–918) – Japanese scholar ...
After leaving KQED in 1989, Talbot produced and co-wrote a PBS biography of John Dos Passos narrated by newsman Robert MacNeil and actor William Hurt. [16] Talbot has returned to KQED over the years to produce documentary specials.
Three Soldiers is a 1921 [1] novel by American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the American war novels of the First World War , and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre .