| John Dos Passos  AKA John Roderigo Madison
Born: 14-Jan-1896
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Died: 28-Sep-1970
Location of death: Baltimore, MD
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Yeocomico Episcopal Churchyard, Kinsale, VA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: U.S.A. Trilogy Military service: US Army (Medical Corps, 1918) Father: John Randolph Dos Passos (lawyer, d. 1917)
Mother: Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison
Wife: Katharine F. Smith (m. 1929, d. 12-Sep-1947 automobile accident)
Wife: Elizabeth Hamlin Holdridge (m. 1949, one daughter)
Daughter: Lucy Hamlin Dos Passos (b. 1950)
High School: Choate School, Wallingford, CT (1907)
University: BA English, Harvard University (1912-16)
Life War Correspondent
American Academy of Arts and Letters 1947
The American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky
Century Club
Emergency Committee for Southern Political Prisoners 1930
Hamilton Street Club
Industrial Workers of the World
John Reed Club
League of American Writers
The Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee
Young Americans for Freedom
Unlawful Assembly Boston (1927)
Sedition "criminal syndicalism," Kentucky (16-Nov-1931)
Traveled to the USSR 1928
Tonsillectomy
Missing Eye auto accident (12-Sep-1947)
Portuguese Ancestry
Author of books:
One Man's Initiation (1917, novel)
Three Soldiers (1921, novel)
Rosinante to the Road Again (1922)
A Pushcart at the Curb (1922)
Streets of Night (1923)
Manhattan Transfer (1925, novel)
The Garbage Man (1926)
Orient Express (1927)
Airways, Inc. (1928)
The 42nd Parallel (1930, novel, USA Trilogy)
1919 (1932, novel, USA Trilogy)
In All Countries (1934)
Three Plays (1934, drama)
The Big Money (1936, novel, USA Trilogy)
Journeys Between Wars (1936)
Adventures of a Young Man (1939)
The Ground We Stand On (1941)
The Grand Design (1949)
USA (1950)
Chosen Country (1951)
District of Columbia (1952)
Most Likely to Succeed (1954)
The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson (1954)
Men Who Made the Nation (1957)
Great Days (1958)
Prospects of a Golden Age (1959)
Midcentury (1961, novel)
Brazil on the Move (1963)
Occasions and Protests (1964)
The Portugal Story: Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery (1964, history)
Thomas Jefferson: The Making of a President (1964, biography)
The Shackles of Power: Three Jeffersonian Decades (1966, history)
The Best Times: An Informal Memoir (1966, memoir)
The Theme Is Freedom (1970)
Easter Island (1971, posthumous)
The Fourteenth Chronicle (1973, letters)
Century's Ebb (1974, posthumous)
Afterglow and Other Undergraduate Writings (1990, posthumous)
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