His 1925 novel about life in New York City, titled Manhattan Transfer was a success. When the war was over, he stayed in Paris, where the United States Army Overseas Education Commission allowed him to study anthropology at the Sorbonne.Ĭonsidered one of the Lost Generation writers, Dos Passos published his first novel in 1920, titled One Man's Initiation: 1917, followed by an antiwar story, Three Soldiers, which brought him considerable recognition. In 1917 he volunteered for the Sanitary Squad Unit 60 of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, along with Edward Estlin Cummings and Robert Hillyer.īy the late summer of 1918, he had completed a draft of his first novel and, at the same time, he had to report for duty in the United States Army Medical Corps, in Pennsylvania. In 1912 he attended Harvard University and, after graduating in 1916, he traveled to Spain to continue his studies. Later, he traveled with his tutor on a tour through France, England, Italy, Greece and the Middle East to study classical art, architecture and literature. He received a first-class education at The Choate School, in Connecticut, in 1907, under the name John Roderigo Madison. John Roderigo Dos Passos, son of John Randolph Dos Passos, was an American novelist and artist.
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