John Dos Passos

John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist. His most famous work includes Manhattan Transfer and the U.S.A. trilogy.¹

Works

Novels

• One Man’s Initiation: 1917 (1920)
• Three Soldiers (1921)
• Streets of Night (1923)
• Manhattan Transfer (1925)
• The 42nd Parallel (1930)
• Nineteen Nineteen (1932)
• The Big Money (1936)
• U.S.A. (1938)
• Adventures of a Young Man (1939)
• Number One (1943)
• The Grand Design (1949)
• Chosen Country (1951)
• District of Columbia (1952)
• Most Likely to Succeed (1954)
• The Great Days (1958)
• Midcentury (1961)
• World in a Glass – A View of Our Century From the Novels of John Dos Passos (1966)
• Century’s Ebb: The Thirteenth Chronicle (1970)

Poetry

• A Pushcart at the Curb (1922)

Non-fiction

• Rosinante to the Road Again (1922)
• Facing the Chair (1927)
• Orient Express (1927)
• Tour of Duty (1946)
• The Ground We Stand On (1949)
• The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson (1954)
• The Theme Is Freedom (1956)
• The Men Who Made the Nation (1957)
• Prospects of a Golden Age (1959)
• Mr. Wilson’s War (1962)
• Brazil on the Move (1963)
• The Best Times: An Informal Memoir (1966)
• The Shackles of Power (1966)
• The Portugal Story (1969)
• Easter Island: Island of Enigmas (1970)

See also

• John Dos Passos quotes
• The prose poetry of John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer

External Links

• Official website
• John Dos Passos Society
• John Dos Passos Papers at the University of Maryland
• John Dos Passos Papers at the University of Virginia
• John Dos Passos Collection at the University of South Carolina
• Goodreads profile
• IMDb profile
• Library of America profile
• Poetry Foundation profile
• Works on Project Gutenberg
• Works on Internet Archive
• Works on LibriVox

References

1. “John Dos Passos.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 26, 2020.