John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
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John Dos Passos, 1896 - 1970 John Passos was born January 14,1896 to John Randolph Dos Passos and Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison. He attended Harvard University from 1912-1916. He was in the ambulance service units in France and Italy and in 1918, enlisted in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. From 1926-29, visa mer he directed New Playwrights' Theatre in New York City. In 1929, Passos married Katharine Smith and in 1947, they were in an automobile accident that killed his wife and left him blind in one eye. He married Elizabeth Holdridge in 1949 and a year later, Lucy Hamlin Dos Passos was born. Passos' many novels include "One Man's Initiation" (1917), "Three Soldiers" (1921), which has met with wide acclaim, "Streets of Night" (1923), "Facing the Chair" (1927), which defends the immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti, "Orient Express" (1927), "The Ground We Stand On" (1949), and "Prospects of a Golden Age" (1959). He received the Gold Medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1957, the Feltrinelli Prize for Fiction in 1967 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1947. On September 28, 1970, Passos died of heart failure in Baltimore, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Novels, 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (2003) 272 exemplar
Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations (1811) 133 exemplar
UN LUGAR EN LA TIERRA 7 exemplar
Viajes de entreguerras: Una visión del mundo entre la Primera Guerra Mundial y la Guerra Civil española (ODISEAS)… (2006) 7 exemplar
Novelas 5 exemplar
42eme Parallele 4 exemplar
O Grande Capital 3 exemplar
Manhattan transfer II 3 exemplar
John Dos Passos' correspondence with Arthur K. McComb, or, "Learn to sing the Carmagnole" (1991) 3 exemplar
La grosse galette t. 2 2 exemplar
La grosse galette t. 1 2 exemplar
The Body of an American 2 exemplar
Prospects of a Golden Age [Birth of America] 2 exemplar
Airways, inc., 2 exemplar
U.S.A. The Big Money - Illustrated 2 exemplar
Devetnajststo devetnajst 1 exemplar
PRIMER ENCUENTRO 1 exemplar
CALLES DE LA NOCHE 1 exemplar
L'an Premier du Siecle 1 exemplar
U. S. A., The Big Money 1 exemplar
Collected Works of John Dos Passos: (One Man's Initiation--1917, A Pushcart At The Curb, Rosinante To The Road… (2016) 1 exemplar
U.S.A./42.Enlem 1 exemplar
Hombre Jóven a la Aventura 1 exemplar
Drei Soldaten 1 exemplar
Tin Lizzie [from "USA"] 1 exemplar
The Campers at Kitty Hawk [from "USA"] 1 exemplar
Meester Veelson [from "USA"] 1 exemplar
La primera catástrofe 1 exemplar
Manhattan Transfer 1 exemplar
U.S.A./1919 1 exemplar
Die schönen Zeiten 1 exemplar
2005 1 exemplar
Servizio speciale 1 exemplar
Veliki denar 1 exemplar
Le vie della liberta 1 exemplar
Novelas. Tomo II : Un Lugar en la Tierra . Podria Salir Bien. Tres Soldados. Primer Encuentro. Calles de Noche (1970) 1 exemplar
Manhattan Transfer vol. I 1 exemplar
Art And Isadora 1 exemplar
Ciężkie pieniądze 1 exemplar
Il mondo fuori casa: romanzo 1 exemplar
Rare -John Dos Passos THE GROUND WE STAND ON First edition 1941 Collection of Essays (1941) 1 exemplar
Argus Bookshop Business Reply Card (Postmarked Jul? 1950) Autograph From John Dos Passos to Argus 1 exemplar
Prospects of a golden age 1 exemplar
DOS PASSOS: U.S.A 1 exemplar
Manhatten Transfer. Dos Passos’ depiction of the city of New York and Ellen Thatcher’s & Jimmy Herfs’… (2008) 1 exemplar
Prospects of a Golden Age 1 exemplar
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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 395 exemplar
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 150 exemplar
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 129 exemplar
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 39 exemplar
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Dos Passos, John Roderigo
- Födelsedag
- 1896-01-14
- Avled
- 1970-09-28
- Begravningsplats
- Yeocomico Churchyard Cemetery, Cople Parish, Virginia, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Dödsort
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Dödsorsak
- heart failure
- Bostadsorter
- Westmoreland, Virginia, USA
- Utbildning
- Harvard University (BA|1916)
Choate School - Yrken
- novelist
poet
playwright
painter - Organisationer
- American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps
United States Army Medical Corps - Priser och utmärkelser
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1947)
Antonio Feltrinelli Prize (1967)
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April-June Theme Read: War and Regions in Conflict i Reading Globally (september 6)
AMERICAN AUTHORS CHALLENGE--JUNE 2022--JOHN DOS PASSOS i 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (juli 2022)
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I had read the trilogy "USA" in 1972 and thought it was revolutionary writing and loved its locomotive narrative.
Dos Passos' diaries and letters are worth reading. He comes across as a retiring thoughtful man with a genius for inventive expression and someone keen for experience.
We follow his development from student to volunteer ambulance service in Europe and Army service in World War I. He was a frequent traveller always interested in how the working citizen was being influenced by the mass movements of the first half of the Twentieth Century.
Over a lifetime Dos Passos gave away his socialist beliefs to such an extent that he ended up a Goldwater advocate in 1964. This change was influenced by his ever growing distrust of communism and political "isms".
There is wonderful correspondence with Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Fitzgerald and E.E. Cummings to mention the most well-known.
His life at Harvard, travels in Spain, the Near East and Russia, the USA in the Thirties, the Spanish Civil War (where his disquiet with communism was fully realized) and post World War II are all covered.
He was often in straitened circumstances (the correspondence often shows him requesting a loan of a couple of hundred dollars to tide him over). He suffered ill-heath for decades and tragedy struck when his first wife was killed in a car crash. To the end of his days he remained an affectionate man with a healthy capacity for disbelief in the prevailing discourse.
Each period of his life is provided with an introductory piece by the editor in the form of a biographical narrative.
Good reading.… (mer)