The Washington Post, June 19th, 1994
Friend of Ernest Hemingway, contemporary of F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck and e.e. cummings, writer John Dos Passos chronicled America's turbulent '20s and '30s, hammering away at themes that revolved around alienation and isolationism, the power of the ordinary man and the way governments could crush individual freedom. Jean-Paul Sartre declared him "the greatest writer of our time." In 1936, Time magazine featured him on its cover, saying he was the only writer "to capture the sweep and chaos of modern American life." Dos Passos was best known for his "U.S.A." trilogy - "The 42nd Paral...
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