author
John Dos Passos
1896–1970
Best known for the groundbreaking U.S.A. trilogy, he turned the noise and motion of modern American life into bold, inventive fiction. His work mixed sharp social observation with experimental storytelling that helped define literary modernism in the United States.
7 Audiobooks
Three Soldiers
by John Dos Passos
Facing the chair : Story of the Americanization of two foreignborn workmen
by John Dos Passos
Rosinante to the Road Again
by John Dos Passos
A Pushcart at the Curb
by John Dos Passos
Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
One Man's Initiation—1917
by John Dos Passos
Streets of Night
by John Dos Passos
About the author
Born in Chicago on January 14, 1896, John Dos Passos became one of the major American writers of the 20th century. He studied at Harvard and later served as an ambulance driver during World War I, an experience that deeply shaped his outlook and fed the realism and urgency in his writing.
He is most closely associated with the "lost generation" and is especially remembered for the U.S.A. trilogy: The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money. These novels stand out for their unusual structure, blending fiction with newsreel-style passages, biographies, and stream-of-consciousness sections to capture the energy, inequality, and upheaval of American society.
Across his career, Dos Passos wrote novels, journalism, travel writing, and other work that reflected a lifelong interest in politics, history, and ordinary lives caught up in larger events. He died in Baltimore on September 28, 1970, but his books remain important for readers interested in both literary experiment and the social story of America.