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8 unusual facts about John Dos Passos


Harry Kemp

Kemp knew many of the bohemian and progressive literary and cultural figures of his generation, including Elbert Hubbard, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Bernarr MacFadden, Sinclair Lewis, Max Eastman, Eugene O'Neill, Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, and many others.

Helen van Dongen

Her 1937 film, Spain in Flames a compilation of Spanish Civil War newsreel footage that was narrated by John Dos Passos.

John Dos Passos

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked the U.S.A. Trilogy 23rd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Maurice Coindreau

He is notable for having introduced many canonical American authors of the 20th century—such as William Faulkner, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, and Ernest Hemingway—to the French-speaking public.

Coindreau also translated the works of Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and John Steinbeck into French, helping to usher in the "Age of the American novel" in France.

New York Workers School

Among those serving on the school's advisory council were labor historian David Saposs, former Industrial Workers of the World organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and left wing novelists Floyd Dell and John Dos Passos.

Samuel Ornitz

In 1931, Ornitz collaborated with Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos and other left-leaning writers on the report of the Dreiser Committee, an investigation of the Harlan County War strike in Harlan County, Kentucky.

Virginia Spencer Carr

Virginia Spencer Carr (July 21, 1929 – April 10, 2012) was an award-winning biographer of Carson McCullers, John Dos Passos and Paul Bowles.


Harlan County War

With contributions by John dos Passos, Samuel Ornitz, and others, Dreiser produced a report called Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields.

Malcolm Cowley

As one of the dozens of creative literary and artistic figures who migrated during the 1920s to Paris, France and congregated in Montparnasse, Cowley returned to live in France for three years, where he worked with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby and others.


see also

Passos

Dos Passos Prize (also known as John dos Passos Prize), an annual award for the best currently under-recognized American writer in the middle of their career