Dos Passos: a life.

From: The Nation | Date: November 10, 1984| Author: Kriegel, Leonard | Copyright information

When he died in 1970 at the age of 74, John Roderigo Dos Passos had outlived his three most famous contemporaries, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner. Together, the four writers form as remarkable a quartet of novelists as this nation has produced in a single generation. Of the four, the literary reputation of Dos Passos has certainly taken the most dramatic turn for the worse. Every so often we are informed that a Dos Passos revival is imminent, but that off-heralded rebirth has n...

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