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John Dos Passos
Birth at
14 January 1896
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He was born in Chicago to a successful lawyer. Graduated from Harvard University, during the First World War he worked as a driver of an ambulance. He started writing in the war years. After the war, he traveled extensively throughout Europe as a correspondent for several American newspapers. In 1927, an event occurred that significantly influenced the worldview of Dos Passos - the execution of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Dos Passos experienced a mental crisis, the result of
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He was born in Chicago to a successful lawyer. Graduated from Harvard University, during the First World War he worked as a driver of an ambulance. He started writing in the war years.
After the war, he traveled extensively throughout Europe as a correspondent for several American newspapers. In 1927, an event occurred that significantly influenced the worldview of Dos Passos - the execution of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Dos Passos experienced a mental crisis, the result of which was the trilogy "USA": "42nd parallel" (1930), "1919" (1932) and "Big money" (1936). This trilogy is the pinnacle of Dos Passos.
Over the years, he became more conservative in his views, and this could not but affect his work. In the 1960s, Dos Passos’s books continued to be published, but were almost ignored by critics and the general public.