John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
Autor(a) de Manhattan Transfer
About the Author
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 mais 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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Séries
Obras de John Dos Passos
Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations (1811) 135 cópias
Viajes de entreguerras: Una visión del mundo entre la Primera Guerra Mundial y la Guerra Civil española (ODISEAS)… (2006) 7 cópias
Novelas 5 cópias
42eme Parallele 4 cópias
Manhattan transfer II 3 cópias
O Grande Capital 3 cópias
John Dos Passos' correspondence with Arthur K. McComb, or, "Learn to sing the Carmagnole" (1991) 3 cópias
La grosse galette t. 2 2 cópias
La grosse galette t. 1 2 cópias
U.S.A. The Big Money - Illustrated 2 cópias
Airways, inc., 2 cópias
Manhattan Transfer vol. I 2 cópias
The Body of an American 2 cópias
Rare John Dos Passos / Portugal Story Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery - Unknown [Hardcover] John Dos… 1 exemplar(es)
Delphi Complete Works of John Dos Passos (Illustrated) 1 exemplar(es)
U. S. A., The Big Money 1 exemplar(es)
Devetnajststo devetnajst 1 exemplar(es)
Los Dias Mejores 1 exemplar(es)
La primera catástrofe 1 exemplar(es)
Un lugar en la tierra 1 exemplar(es)
Meester Veelson [from "USA"] 1 exemplar(es)
Hombre Jóven a la Aventura 1 exemplar(es)
Drei Soldaten 1 exemplar(es)
U.S.A./1919 1 exemplar(es)
Portugal : três séculos de expansão e descobrimentos 1 exemplar(es)
Rare John Dos Passos 1919 Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces Leather 1978 [Hardcover] unknown 1 exemplar(es)
U.S.A./42.Enlem 1 exemplar(es)
Die schönen Zeiten 1 exemplar(es)
Prospects of a Golden Age 1 exemplar(es)
Rare John Dos Passos / LIBRARY OF AMERICA TRAVEL BOOKS AND OTHER WRITINGS 1st ed 2003 1 exemplar(es)
Tin Lizzie [from "USA"] 1 exemplar(es)
The Campers at Kitty Hawk [from "USA"] 1 exemplar(es)
Collected Works of John Dos Passos: (One Man's Initiation--1917, A Pushcart At The Curb, Rosinante To The Road… (2016) 1 exemplar(es)
Il 42º parallelo 1 exemplar(es)
Ciężkie pieniądze 1 exemplar(es)
John Dos Pasos Tomo I: Manhattan Transfer y otras novelas 1 exemplar(es)
2005 1 exemplar(es)
Veliki denar 1 exemplar(es)
Le vie della liberta 1 exemplar(es)
Novelas. Tomo II : Un Lugar en la Tierra . Podria Salir Bien. Tres Soldados. Primer Encuentro. Calles de Noche (1970) 1 exemplar(es)
"The Conspiracy And Trial Of Aaron Burr: No one who met him ever forgot him. His charm captivated beautiful women, his… 1 exemplar(es)
Art And Isadora 1 exemplar(es)
SAN FRANCISCO LOOKS WEST: The City in Wartime 1 exemplar(es)
Three plays: The garbage man; airways, inc.; fortune heights 1 exemplar(es)
Manhatten Transfer. Dos Passos’ depiction of the city of New York and Ellen Thatcher’s & Jimmy Herfs’… (2008) 1 exemplar(es)
PRIMER ENCUENTRO 1 exemplar(es)
USA: The 42nd Paralle, 1919, and The Big Money 1 exemplar(es)
CALLES DE LA NOCHE 1 exemplar(es)
L'an Premier du Siecle 1 exemplar(es)
Servizio speciale 1 exemplar(es)
Il mondo fuori casa: romanzo 1 exemplar(es)
TOM PAINE by JOHN DOS PASSOS Premier PB 1940 1961 1st 1 exemplar(es)
Rocinante vuelve al camino 1 exemplar(es)
Rare -John Dos Passos THE GROUND WE STAND ON First edition 1941 Collection of Essays (1941) 1 exemplar(es)
Argus Bookshop Business Reply Card (Postmarked Jul? 1950) Autograph From John Dos Passos to Argus 1 exemplar(es)
Prospects of a golden age 1 exemplar(es)
Bitter Drink: A biography of Thornstein Veblen 1 exemplar(es)
Rocinante vuelve al camino (El panadero de Alborox - Un novelista revolucionario: Pio Baroja - Córdoba, la que… 1 exemplar(es)
DOS PASSOS: U.S.A 1 exemplar(es)
el Paralelo 42 1 exemplar(es)
Three Soldiers 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contribuinte — 406 cópias
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contribuinte — 153 cópias
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuinte — 132 cópias
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Dos Passos, John Roderigo
- Data de nascimento
- 1896-01-14
- Data de falecimento
- 1970-09-28
- Local de enterro
- Yeocomico Churchyard Cemetery, Cople Parish, Virginia, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Causa da morte
- heart failure
- Locais de residência
- Westmoreland, Virginia, USA
- Educação
- Harvard University (BA|1916)
Choate School - Ocupação
- novelist
poet
playwright
painter - Organizações
- American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps
United States Army Medical Corps - Premiações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1947)
Antonio Feltrinelli Prize (1967)
Membros
Discussions
April-June Theme Read: War and Regions in Conflict em Reading Globally (Fevereiro 10)
AMERICAN AUTHORS CHALLENGE--JUNE 2022--JOHN DOS PASSOS em 75 Books Challenge for 2022 (Julho 2022)
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