John Dos Passos Summary

Biography EssayFor readers familiar with his work in the 1920s and 1930s, John Dos Passos's public image seemed clearly defined. His friends and colleagues were expatriate writers such as Ernest Hemin... Read more

For readers in the 1930s and 1940s the career of John Dos Passos had its puzzling aspects, but the image of the man seemed to possess a certain clarity. He was, according to the dust jackets, "Chicago... Read more

Critical Essay by F. R. Leavis After Manhattan Transfer (1927) one remembered the name of John Dos Passos. After The Forty-second Parallel one looked eagerly forward to the succeeding members of the ... Read more

Critical Essay by Herbert Marshall Mcluhan The reader of Dos Passos … is not required to have much more reading agility than the reader of the daily press. Nor does Dos Passos make many more s... Read more

Critical Essay by George J. Becker [Dos Passos'] preparation as a writer may be seen as four separate rites of passage, subjection to major ordeals of mind and spirit, which determined and tem... Read more

Critical Essay by James T. Farrell John Dos Passos is one of the few living American writers who is a world figure. Abroad, his books are sometimes cited as criticisms of American capitalism and as n... Read more

In the following essay, Levin discusses the political beliefs of John Dos Passos, particularly in U.S.A. John Dos Passos' reputation reached its highest point in 1938, when Jean-Paul Sartre&... Read more