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John Roderigo Dos Passos was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy. He was a descendant of the Lee family of Virginia.
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Born 14 January 1896 · Died 28 September 1970 · Q312407
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I have come to think, especially since my trip to Spain, that civil liberties must be protected at every stage. In Spain, I am sure that the introduction of GPU methods by the Communists did as much harm as their tank men, pilots, and experienced military men did good. The trouble with an all-powerful secret police in the hands of fanatics, or of anybody, is that once it gets started, there
To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal
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“I have come to think, especially since my trip to Spain, that civil liberties must be protected at every stage. In Spain, I am sure that the introduction of GPU methods by the Communists did as much harm as their tank men, pilots, and experienced military men did good. The trouble with an all-powerful secret police in the hands of fanatics, or of anybody, is that once it gets started, there”
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As 23rd of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century
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“To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal”
Died 1970-09-28.
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“I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart.”
Was invited to Rome to accept the prestigious Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for international distinction in literature
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By whom he had one daughter, Lucy Hamlin Dos Passos (b
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Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1942).
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1940).
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1939).
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During the Spanish Civil War, Dos Passos returned to Spain with writer Ernest Hemingway, whom he had met in Paris in the 1920s
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Part of the massive purges of Soviet party leaders and intellectuals in that period
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Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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Dos Passos spent several months in Russia studying socialism
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Traveled to the Soviet Union, curious about its social and political experiment, though he left with mixed impressions
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And the following year at Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Studio Club in New York City
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His first novel, One Man's Initiation: 1917, was published, and in 1925, his novel Manhattan Transfer became a commercial success
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One Man's Initiation: 1917, which was written in the trenches during World War I
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Dos Passos traveled to Spain to study art and architecture
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Dos Passos enrolled in Harvard College, where he became friends with classmate e
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When John was 14, but he refused to formally acknowledge John for another two years
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At the Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall), a private college-preparatory school in Wallingford, Connecticut, under the name John Roderigo Madison
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Born 1896-01-14.
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