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John Dos Passos

1896 - 1970

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John Roderigo Dos Passos (; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visiting Europe and southwest Asia, where he learned about literature, art, and architecture. During World War I, he was an ambulance driver for the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps in Paris and Italy, before joining the United States Army Medical Corps as a private. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Dos Passos is the 834th most popular writer (down from 740th in 2019), the 1,170th most popular biography from United States (down from 831st in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Writer.

John Dos Passos is most famous for his trilogy of novels, U.S.A., which includes the books The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money.

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Among writers, John Dos Passos ranks 834 out of 7,302. Before him are Nikolai Ostrovsky, Kobayashi Issa, John Bunyan, Bacchylides, Wole Soyinka, and Derek Walcott. After him are L. Ron Hubbard, Miroslav Krleža, Antonio Machado, Stesichorus, Jamal Khashoggi, and William McMaster Murdoch.

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Among people born in 1896, John Dos Passos ranks 41. Before him are Léon Theremin, Oswald Mosley, Célestin Freinet, Wallace Carothers, Anastasio Somoza García, and Lewis Strauss. After him are Italo Balbo, Nobusuke Kishi, Nikolay Semyonov, Paulino Alcántara, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Among people deceased in 1970, John Dos Passos ranks 39. Before him are Bruce McLaren, Italo Gariboldi, Frances Farmer, Władysław Anders, Andrey Yeryomenko, and Francis Peyton Rous. After him are Bourvil, Arthur Adamov, Fritz Perls, Lázaro Cárdenas, Nina Ricci, and Isdal Woman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Dos Passos ranks 1,170 out of 20,380. Before him are George O. Abell (1927), Matthew C. Perry (1794), Frank Caprio (1936), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), and Charles Best (1899). After him are Thorstein Veblen (1857), Mark Zuckerberg (1984), Clifford Geertz (1926), Bill Evans (1929), L. Ron Hubbard (1911), and Robert Wagner (1930).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Dos Passos ranks 88. Before him are Dashiell Hammett (1894), L. Frank Baum (1856), Robert Ludlum (1927), William Saroyan (1908), James Jones (1921), and Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867). After him are L. Ron Hubbard (1911), Daniel Goleman (1946), Michael Crichton (1942), Stephen Covey (1932), Sam Shepard (1943), and Thomas Harris (1940).

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