John Dos Passos

Many things mark the tradition of realism—one that includes among its masters Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos—but it is distinguished above all by illustrating the pressure that social arrangements bring to bear on individual character.

Destiny's Children Joseph Epstein 2012

On the final day he trawled around every bar he knew in Paris, with his friend John Dos Passos, borrowing cash, and eventually raised the funds.

Joan Miró: A life in paintings 2011

Parker had been associated romantically with John Dos Passos and even knew Hemingway from her days in Cuba.

The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

Parker had been associated romantically with John Dos Passos and even knew Hemingway from her days in Cuba.

The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

Harris brought the book to New York and was taken up by John Dos Passos and the publisher Pascal Covici, though his collaborator, it seems, was not so highly favoured: "In the judgment of the publishing illuminati," Bellow later said, "I would do well to enter my father's business."

Saul Bellow: Letters - review John Banville 2010

They still live, breathe and excite in similar ways to, say, the music of John Coltrane or the novels of John Dos Passos.

The ultimate jam session 2009

John Dos Passos carefully swung himself off the saddle and leaned the bike against the unpainted wooden wall of the building Blair had chosen to make his HQ.

DBTL 25: Enemies of the People Johnny Pez 2009

I think it also has to do with Jerry Salt'z view of New York as Babylon and John Dos Passos "Manhattan Transfer" - I'll try to dig up more.

Hickey remarks vanish (revised) EAGEAGEAG 2009

Now add a few moves from John Dos Passos with a mixed-media format made up of newspaper articles, wanted notices, memos from the Pinkerton detective agency, letters, Etta's first-person journal and, occasionally, a third-person narrative and you end up with an American tall-tale that feels like legitimate and living history.

Tom Alderman: An Audio Book Review: Forget Butch and Sundance, Etta's the Real Star Here 2009

Politically and stylistically it is her most avant-garde work, espousing an internationalism which had its (unacknowledged) roots in Trotsky and using techniques of writing pioneered by John Dos Passos (1896 – 1970) and Alfred Döblin (1878 – 1957).

Anna Seghers. 2009