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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.
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Dec 29, 2019 · Writing at a moment of economic dissolution and technological transformation, John Dos Passos hoped to show how Americans of all kinds were responding to the bustling mess of modernity.
John Roderigo Dos Passos, son of John Randolph Dos Passos, was an American novelist and artist. He received a first-class education at The Choate School, in Connecticut, in 1907, under the name John Roderigo Madison.
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The U.S.A. trilogy is a series of three novels by American writer John Dos Passos, comprising the novels The 42nd Parallel ( 1930 ), Nineteen Nineteen ( 1932) and The Big Money ( 1936 ). The books were first published together in a volume titled U.S.A. by Modern Library in 1937.
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Dec 22, 2021 · A biography of the novelist, poet, critic, and painter who was born in Virginia and became a modernist writer and a critic of communism. Learn about his life, works, political views, and legacy in this comprehensive entry.
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The first volume in what would become Dos Passos’s most famous work, the trilogy U.S.A., The 42nd Parallel introduces grand innovations in the form and content of American literature. The author chronicles the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, as the country angsts for attention on the world stage.
