Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941 (Library of America 143)
by Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.
Series
Physical Description: |
865 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 27 cm. |
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Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 827-849) and index. |
ISBN: |
1931082405 (alk. paper) |
Author Notes: |
Passos' many novels include "One Man's Initiation" (1917), "Three Soldiers" (1921), which has met with wide acclaim, "Streets of Night" (1923), "Facing the Chair" (1927), which defends the immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti, "Orient Express" (1927), "The Ground We Stand On" (1949), and "Prospects of a Golden Age" (1959). He received the Gold Medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1957, the Feltrinelli Prize for Fiction in 1967 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1947. On September 28, 1970, Passos died of heart failure in Baltimore, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography) |