John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was a writer, painter, and political activist. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write Three Soldiers in 1919, the first in a series of works that established him as one of the most prolific, inventive, and influential American writers of the twentieth century, writing over forty books, including plays, poetry, novels, biographies, histories, and memoirs.
"It is not simply that [Dos Passos] has a keen eye for people, but that he has a keen eye for so many different kinds of people." -- New York Times"In a trilogy that took on an unsettled nations' discontents, Dos Passos delivered a magnum opus that stands apart from much of American fiction...unlike anything else ever written." -- Wall Street Journal"[Dos Passos] remains one of the few first-rate figures among our writers of his generation, and the only one of these who has made a systematic effort to study all the aspects of America and to take account of all its elements, to compose them into a picture which makes some general sense. Most of the first-rate men of Dos Passos's age--Hemingway, Wilder, Fitzgerald--cultivate their own little corners and do not confront the situation as a whole. Only Dos Passos has tried to take hold of it." -- Edmund Wilson "One of the most ambitious projects that an American novelist has ever undertaken." -- Time
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