John Dos Passos





John Dos Passos

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born
January 14, 1896 in Chicago, The United States

died
September 28, 1970

gender
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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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Average rating: 3.92 · 5,241 ratings · 461 reviews · 58 distinct works
The 42nd Parallel
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 1,384 ratings — published 1930 — 21 editions
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Manhattan Transfer
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1919
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The Big Money
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U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel/1...
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Three Soldiers
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 1921 — 42 editions
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One Man's Initiation: 1917
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Novels 1920-1925: One Man's...
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Dos Passos Travel Books and...
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Chosen Country
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1951 — 3 editions
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“We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.”
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“I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.”
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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.”
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