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John Dos Passos

1896 - 1970

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John Roderigo Dos Passos (; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visiting Europe and southwest Asia, where he learned about literature, art, and architecture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Dos Passos has received more than 1,186,009 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). John Dos Passos is the 741st most popular writer (down from 701st in 2019), the 831st most popular biography from United States (down from 788th in 2019) and the 78th most popular American Writer.

John Dos Passos is most famous for his trilogy of novels, U.S.A., which includes the books The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money.

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  • 1.2M

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  • 68.92

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  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Dos Passos ranks 741 out of 7,302. Before him are Walter Raleigh, Sidonius Apollinaris, Otto of Freising, Georg Büchner, Pierre Boulle, and Yanka Kupala. After him are Berossus, Edmond de Goncourt, Theognis of Megara, A. J. Cronin, Felix Salten, and Sven Hassel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, John Dos Passos ranks 34. Before him are Italo Balbo, Ernst Udet, Anna Anderson, Erich Koch, Célestin Freinet, and Howard Hawks. After him are A. J. Cronin, Helen of Greece and Denmark, Sandro Pertini, Anastasio Somoza García, Lewis Strauss, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Among people deceased in 1970, John Dos Passos ranks 36. Before him are Artem Mikoyan, Bruce McLaren, Heinrich Brüning, Frances Farmer, Bourvil, and Arthur Adamov. After him are Władysław Anders, Fritz Perls, Nina Ricci, Francis Peyton Rous, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, and Richard Neutra.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Dos Passos ranks 831 out of 20,380. Before him are Howard Hawks (1896), Nikki Sixx (1958), Tim Robbins (1958), Dick Fosbury (1947), Mark Zuckerberg (1984), and Michael Bloomberg (1942). After him are Scott Joplin (1868), Rudy Giuliani (1944), Bill Evans (1929), Don Johnson (1949), Linda Hunt (1945), and Victor Fleming (1889).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Dos Passos ranks 78. Before him are Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867), Jack Vance (1916), Louise Hay (1926), Dalton Trumbo (1905), William Saroyan (1908), and Robert E. Howard (1906). After him are Robert Ludlum (1927), Thomas Harris (1940), Neal Cassady (1926), Sinclair Lewis (1885), Raymond Carver (1938), and Leon Uris (1924).

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