John Dos Passos powerpoint

2. •Born on January 14, 1896 in Chicago, Illinois to John Randolph Dos Passos Jr. and Lucy
Addison Sprigg Madison.
•Both parents were married to someone else, spent most of life in Europe with his mother
to protect his father’s social status
•Attended Harvard in 1912 and after graduation went to Spain to study art and literature
•Volunteered in July 1917 for the Ambulance Corps before the U.S. entered and later joined
the U.S. Ambulance Corp.
•Drafted first novel in 1918
•Married 1st wife in 1929 Katharine F. Smith, died in 1947 due to an automobile accident
•Remarried to Elizabeth Hamlin Holdridge in 1949, and had one daughter.

3. •Before becoming an author,
Dos Passos was an artist with
over 400 pieces of art
•Wrote 42 literay works,
his most famous being
“The USA Trilogy”
•“The USA Trilogy” was
made up of the 42nd
Parallel, 1919, and The
Big Money
•The novel is meant to be read
as a whole, and puts the down the
direction of the US in World War I.

4. •Was a member of the Communist Party and was against Capitalism
•Outspoken against the killings of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two
Communist Party Leaders.
•Turned away from communism after a friend of his was executed in the Spanish Civil
War by the Communists.
•Turned his fear on Communism and Fascism, instead of Capitalism.

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