John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
Autor de Manhattan Transfer
Sobre El Autor
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, mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de John Dos Passos
Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations (1811) 133 copias
Viajes de entreguerras: Una visión del mundo entre la Primera Guerra Mundial y la Guerra Civil española (ODISEAS)… (2006) 7 copias
Novelas 5 copias
42eme Parallele 4 copias
O Grande Capital 3 copias
John Dos Passos' correspondence with Arthur K. McComb, or, "Learn to sing the Carmagnole" (1991) 3 copias
Manhattan transfer II 3 copias
Airways, inc., 2 copias
The Body of an American 2 copias
La grosse galette t. 2 2 copias
La grosse galette t. 1 2 copias
U.S.A. The Big Money - Illustrated 2 copias
Devetnajststo devetnajst 1 copia
CALLES DE LA NOCHE 1 copia
L'an Premier du Siecle 1 copia
PRIMER ENCUENTRO 1 copia
U. S. A., The Big Money 1 copia
John Dos Passos: U.S.A. (LOA #85): The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America) 1 copia
Collected Works of John Dos Passos: (One Man's Initiation--1917, A Pushcart At The Curb, Rosinante To The Road… (2016) 1 copia
Hombre Jóven a la Aventura 1 copia
Drei Soldaten 1 copia
Tin Lizzie [from "USA"] 1 copia
Meester Veelson [from "USA"] 1 copia
La primera catástrofe 1 copia
U.S.A./1919 1 copia
Die schönen Zeiten 1 copia
U.S.A./42.Enlem 1 copia
Manhattan Transfer 1 copia
2005 1 copia
Veliki denar 1 copia
Le vie della liberta 1 copia
Novelas. Tomo II : Un Lugar en la Tierra . Podria Salir Bien. Tres Soldados. Primer Encuentro. Calles de Noche (1970) 1 copia
Ciężkie pieniądze 1 copia
Manhattan Transfer vol. I 1 copia
Art And Isadora 1 copia
Servizio speciale 1 copia
Argus Bookshop Business Reply Card (Postmarked Jul? 1950) Autograph From John Dos Passos to Argus 1 copia
Il mondo fuori casa: romanzo 1 copia
Prospects of a golden age 1 copia
DOS PASSOS: U.S.A 1 copia
Manhatten Transfer. Dos Passos’ depiction of the city of New York and Ellen Thatcher’s & Jimmy Herfs’… (2008) 1 copia
Prospects of a Golden Age 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contribuidor — 395 copias
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contribuidor — 150 copias
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 129 copias
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Dos Passos, John Roderigo
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1896-01-14
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1970-09-28
- Lugar de sepultura
- Yeocomico Churchyard Cemetery, Cople Parish, Virginia, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- heart failure
- Lugares de residencia
- Westmoreland, Virginia, USA
- Educación
- Harvard University (BA|1916)
Choate School - Ocupaciones
- novelist
poet
playwright
painter - Organizaciones
- American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps
United States Army Medical Corps - Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1947)
Antonio Feltrinelli Prize (1967)
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Debates
April-June Theme Read: War and Regions in Conflict en Reading Globally (septiembre 6)
AMERICAN AUTHORS CHALLENGE--JUNE 2022--JOHN DOS PASSOS en 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (julio 2022)
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