Dos Passos: A Life

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Northwestern University Press, 11/11/2004 - 624 páginas
A New York Times Notable Book

An intimate biography of a great American writer.

He rose from a childhood as the illegitimate son of a financial titan to become the man Sartre called "the greatest writer of our time." A progressive writer who turned his passions into the groundbreaking U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos later embraced conservative causes. At the height of his career he was considered a peer of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, yet he died in obscurity in 1970.

Award-winning biographer Virginia Spencer Carr examines the contradictions of Dos Passos's life with an in-depth study of the man. Using the writer's letters and journals, and with assistance from the Dos Passos family, Carr reconstructs an epic life, one of literary acclaim and bitter obscurity, restless wandering and happy marriage, friendship with Edmund Wilson and feuds with Hemingway. First published to acclaim in 1984, Dos Passos remains the definitive personal portrait of the author.
 

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BOOK II DOS JOHN R DOS PASSOS JR 191247
47
BOOK III MR JACK SQUIRE OF SPENCESS POINT 194970
479
SOME WORDS AFTER
554
NOTES AND SOURCES
557
INDEX
603
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Virginia Spencer Carr was born in West Palm Beach, Florida on July 21, 1929. She received a bachelor's degree from Florida State University, a master's degree in English from the University of North Carolina, and a doctorate from Florida State University. She is best known for her book The Lonely Hunter, which was published in 1975 and was the first full-length biography of Carson McCullers. Her other works include Dos Passos: A Life, Paul Bowles: A Life, and Understanding Carson McCullers. She was also the editor of Flowering Judas: Katherine Anne Porter. She died of liver disease on April 10, 2012 at the age of 82.

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