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
Novels, 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (2003) 284 copias, 1 reseña
Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations (1962) 140 copias, 1 reseña
Viajes de entreguerras: Una visión del mundo entre la Primera Guerra Mundial y la Guerra Civil española (ODISEAS)… (2006) 8 copias
Novelas 6 copias
Manhattan transfer II 4 copias
42eme Parallele 4 copias
John Dos Passos' correspondence with Arthur K. McComb, or, "Learn to sing the Carmagnole" (1991) 3 copias
El paral.lel 42. 2 copias
U.S.A. The Big Money - Illustrated 2 copias
Manhattan Transfer vol. I 2 copias
The Body of an American 2 copias
La grosse galette t. 2 2 copias
La grosse galette t. 1 2 copias
Airways, inc., 2 copias
La primera catástrofe 1 copia
John Dos Passos Mid-Century 1 copia
U. S. A., The Big Money 1 copia
Devetnajststo devetnajst 1 copia
Los Dias Mejores 1 copia
Un monde plus grand 1 copia
Prospects of a Golden Age 1 copia
Hombre Jóven a la Aventura 1 copia
Drei Soldaten 1 copia
EL PARALELO 42 1 copia
Die schönen Zeiten 1 copia
Tin Lizzie [from "USA"] 1 copia
Meester Veelson [from "USA"] 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
Il 42º parallelo 1 copia
Le vie della liberta 1 copia
Ciężkie pieniądze 1 copia
2005 1 copia
Veliki denar 1 copia
Manhatten Transfer. Dos Passos’ depiction of the city of New York and Ellen Thatcher’s & Jimmy Herfs’… (2008) 1 copia
Novelas. Tomo II : Un Lugar en la Tierra . Podria Salir Bien. Tres Soldados. Primer Encuentro. Calles de Noche (1970) 1 copia
Art And Isadora 1 copia
Rocinante vuelve al camino 1 copia
PRIMER ENCUENTRO 1 copia
CALLES DE LA NOCHE 1 copia
L'an Premier du Siecle 1 copia
Servizio speciale 1 copia
Il mondo fuori casa: romanzo 1 copia
Chosen Country 1 copia
el Paralelo 42 1 copia
Argus Bookshop Business Reply Card (Postmarked Jul? 1950) Autograph From John Dos Passos to Argus 1 copia
Prospects of a golden age 1 copia
DOS PASSOS: U.S.A 1 copia
Un lugar en la tierra 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contribuidor — 415 copias, 1 reseña
World War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived It (1918) — Contribuidor — 201 copias, 1 reseña
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contribuidor — 160 copias, 1 reseña
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 136 copias, 1 reseña
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 68 copias, 1 reseña
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 43 copias, 1 reseña
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Contribuidor — 40 copias, 1 reseña
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Etiquetado
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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April-June Theme Read: War and Regions in Conflict en Reading Globally (Febrero 10)
AMERICAN AUTHORS CHALLENGE--JUNE 2022--JOHN DOS PASSOS en 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (julio 2022)
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