Dos Passos

[dohs pas-ohs]

noun

1. John (Roderigo) 1896–1970, U.S. novelist.

Dos Passos

/ ˈdɒs ˈpæsɒs /

noun

1. John ( Roderigo ). 1896–1970, US novelist of the Lost Generation; author of Three Soldiers (1921), Manhattan Transfer (1925), and the trilogy USA. (1930–36)

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The frenemies Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos did write the screenplay, as Silverman relates.

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She read modernist poetry; he favored the laborious historical-realist fiction deemed acceptable by the socialist left: John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, Howard Fast.

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She ran in the same circles as John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker and Ernest Hemingway — who, she said, had called her “his favorite living writer” — but success eluded her in her lifetime.

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“Continental Drift,” which brought Mr. Banks the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, was regarded as his first major work, although he had previously published several novels and short story collections.

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Mr. Banks received the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 1985 as well as his first Pulitzer Prize nomination.

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