Dos Passos
Americannoun
noun
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In the decades that followed, in his complementary positions as book critic and editor, Cowley worked tirelessly to legitimize the innovative writing of Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Hart Crane, E.E.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
She read modernist poetry; he favored the laborious historical-realist fiction deemed acceptable by the socialist left: John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, Howard Fast.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2023
“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.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2023
You do not hear his name much now, but in his day Dos Passos was among the most celebrated novelists writing in English.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2021
John Dos Passos in Three Soldiers, the most controverted novel of the year, dealt brilliantly with the unheroic aspects of the American Expeditionary Force.
From Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) by Doren, Carl Van
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