Author · United States
John Dos Passos
Died in 1970
John Dos Passos was born in Chicago in 1896, the natural son of a lawyer of Portuguese origin, then married to another woman, and of Lucy Madison, and spent a childhood of hotels in Europe. A Harvard graduate in 1916, he was an ambulance driver in France in 1917 with E. E. Cummings, then in Italy, where he met Ernest Hemingway. Long committed to the left, he turned after the execution of his friend José Robles by communists during the Spanish Civil War, broke with Hemingway over it, and ended as a conservative. He published more than forty books and died in Baltimore in 1970.
In the catalogue 2
- NovelManhattan TransferJohn Dos Passos · 1925Literature
- NovelThe 42nd ParallelJohn Dos Passos · 1930Literature