John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
Auteur van Manhattan transfer
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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, toon meer 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) toon minder
Fotografie: Mondadori Portfolio/Getty Images, from Library of America website
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Novels, 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (2003) 280 exemplaren
Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations (1811) 134 exemplaren
The 42nd Parallel[U S A V01 42ND PARALLEL][Paperback] 11 exemplaren
Viajes de entreguerras: Una visión del mundo entre la Primera Guerra Mundial y la Guerra Civil española (ODISEAS)… (2006) 7 exemplaren
Novelas 5 exemplaren
42eme Parallele 4 exemplaren
O Grande Capital 3 exemplaren
Manhattan transfer II 3 exemplaren
Invierno en Castilla y otros poemas (Traducciones) (Spanish and English Edition) (2018) 3 exemplaren
John Dos Passos' correspondence with Arthur K. McComb, or, "Learn to sing the Carmagnole" (1991) 3 exemplaren
U.S.A. The Big Money - Illustrated 2 exemplaren
The Body of an American 2 exemplaren
La grosse galette t. 2 2 exemplaren
La grosse galette t. 1 2 exemplaren
Prospects of a Golden Age [Birth of America] 2 exemplaren
Manhattan Transfer vol. I 2 exemplaren
Airways, inc., 2 exemplaren
Hombre Jóven a la Aventura 1 exemplaar
U. S. A., The Big Money 1 exemplaar
Devetnajststo devetnajst 1 exemplaar
Collected Works of John Dos Passos: (One Man's Initiation--1917, A Pushcart At The Curb, Rosinante To The Road… (2016) 1 exemplaar
Drei Soldaten 1 exemplaar
Die schönen Zeiten 1 exemplaar
Un lugar en la tierra 1 exemplaar
Rare John Dos Passos 1919 Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces Leather 1978 [Hardcover] unknown 1 exemplaar
Prospects of a Golden Age 1 exemplaar
PRIMER ENCUENTRO 1 exemplaar
U.S.A./1919 1 exemplaar
U.S.A./42.Enlem 1 exemplaar
La primera catástrofe 1 exemplaar
Meester Veelson [from "USA"] 1 exemplaar
The Campers at Kitty Hawk [from "USA"] 1 exemplaar
Tin Lizzie [from "USA"] 1 exemplaar
Il 42º parallelo 1 exemplaar
CALLES DE LA NOCHE 1 exemplaar
Ciężkie pieniądze 1 exemplaar
2005 1 exemplaar
Veliki denar 1 exemplaar
Le vie della liberta 1 exemplaar
Novelas. Tomo II : Un Lugar en la Tierra . Podria Salir Bien. Tres Soldados. Primer Encuentro. Calles de Noche (1970) 1 exemplaar
Art And Isadora 1 exemplaar
SAN FRANCISCO LOOKS WEST: The City in Wartime 1 exemplaar
Manhatten Transfer. Dos Passos’ depiction of the city of New York and Ellen Thatcher’s & Jimmy Herfs’… (2008) 1 exemplaar
L'an Premier du Siecle 1 exemplaar
Servizio speciale 1 exemplaar
Il mondo fuori casa: romanzo 1 exemplaar
USA: The 42nd Paralle, 1919, and The Big Money 1 exemplaar
Rare -John Dos Passos THE GROUND WE STAND ON First edition 1941 Collection of Essays (1941) 1 exemplaar
Rocinante vuelve al camino 1 exemplaar
Argus Bookshop Business Reply Card (Postmarked Jul? 1950) Autograph From John Dos Passos to Argus 1 exemplaar
Prospects of a golden age 1 exemplaar
Bitter Drink: A biography of Thornstein Veblen 1 exemplaar
DOS PASSOS: U.S.A 1 exemplaar
el Paralelo 42 1 exemplaar
Three Soldiers 1 exemplaar
Gerelateerde werken
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Medewerker — 404 exemplaren
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Medewerker — 153 exemplaren
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Medewerker — 131 exemplaren
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Medewerker — 39 exemplaren
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- Officiële naam
- Dos Passos, John Roderigo
- Geboortedatum
- 1896-01-14
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1970-09-28
- Graflocatie
- Yeocomico Churchyard Cemetery, Cople Parish, Virginia, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- heart failure
- Woonplaatsen
- Westmoreland, Virginia, USA
- Opleiding
- Harvard University (BA|1916)
Choate School - Beroepen
- novelist
poet
playwright
painter - Organisaties
- American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps
United States Army Medical Corps - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1947)
Antonio Feltrinelli Prize (1967)
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