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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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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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Learn about John Dos Passos, a chronicler of 20th century America who blended fiction and nonfiction in his books and art. Explore his biography, works, and recent news on his official website.
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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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.
John Dos Passos. 3.83. 7,271 ratings567 reviews. With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel.
