John Dos Passos

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born

January 14, 1896 in Chicago, The United States

died

September 28, 1970

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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John Roderigo 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. Later, he traveled with his tutor on a tour through France, England, Italy, Greece and the Middle East to study classical art, architecture and literature.

In 1912 he attended Harvard University and, after graduating in 1916, he traveled to Spain to continue his studies. In 1917 he volunteered for the S.S.U. 60 of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, along with E.E. Cummings and Robert Hillyer.

By the late summer of 1918, he had completed a draft of his first novel and, at the same time, he had to report for duty in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, in Pennsylvania.
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Books by John Dos Passos

Average rating: 3.92 · 5,241 ratings · 461 reviews · 58 distinct works

	The 42nd Parallel 3.94 avg rating — 1,384 ratings — published 1930 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Manhattan Transfer 3.70 avg rating — 1,157 ratings — published 1925 — 29 editions	My rating:
	1919 by John Dos Passos, E.L. Doctorow (Foreword by) 4.01 avg rating — 799 ratings — published 1932 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The Big Money by John Dos Passos, E.L. Doctorow (Foreword by) 4.06 avg rating — 776 ratings — published 1936 — 14 editions	My rating:
	U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel/1919/The Big Money by John Dos Passos, Daniel Aaron (Editor), Townsend Ludington (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 670 ratings — published 1938 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Three Soldiers 3.57 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 1921 — 42 editions	My rating:
	One Man's Initiation: 1917 3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1971 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Novels 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos, Townsend Ludington 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Dos Passos Travel Books and Other Writings: 1916-1941 by John Dos Passos, Townsend Ludington (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Chosen Country 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1951 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Series by John Dos Passos

The U.S.A. Trilogy (3 books)
by John Dos Passos, E.L. Doctorow (Foreword by)

4.02 avg rating — 3,629 ratings

Quotes by John Dos Passos

“We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.”
― John Dos Passos

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“I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.”
― John Dos Passos

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“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.”
― John Dos Passos

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Polls

What fiction book would you like to read for March's book of the month?

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

14 votes, 40.0%

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

11 votes, 31.4%

Novel on Yellow Paper, Or, Work It Out for Yourself by Stevie Smith

7 votes, 20.0%

The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos

2 votes, 5.7%

Star Begotten: A Biological Fantasia by H.G. Wells

1 vote, 2.9%

35 total votes

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