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A Pushcart at the Curb

A Pushcart at the Curb( )
Author: Dos Passos, John
ISBN:978-1-7222-3004-3
Publication Date:Jul 2018
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $15.99
Book Description:

A Pushcart at the Curb by John Dos Passos A Pushcart at the Curb by John Dos Passos Passos' only collection of poetry, many of these poems were published in periodicals in 1921/22, though some were composed as early as 1916. George H. Doran published A Pushcart at the Curb on October 11, 1922. There was no subsequent edition. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for...
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Book Details
Pages:206
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.47 Inches
Book Weight:0.82 Pounds
Author Biography
Dos Passos, John (Author)
John Dos Passos, 1896 - 1970 John Passos was born January 14,1896 to John Randolph Dos Passos and Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison. He attended Harvard University from 1912-1916. He was in the ambulance service units in France and Italy and in 1918, enlisted in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. From 1926-29, he directed New Playwrights' Theatre in New York City. In 1929, Passos married Katharine Smith and in 1947, they were in an automobile accident that killed his wife and left him blind in one eye. He married Elizabeth Holdridge in 1949 and a year later, Lucy Hamlin Dos Passos was born.

Passos' many novels include "One Man's Initiation" (1917), "Three Soldiers" (1921), which has met with wide acclaim, "Streets of Night" (1923), "Facing the Chair" (1927), which defends the immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti, "Orient Express" (1927), "The Ground We Stand On" (1949), and "Prospects of a Golden Age" (1959). He received the Gold Medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1957, the Feltrinelli Prize for Fiction in 1967 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1947.

On September 28, 1970, Passos died of heart failure in Baltimore, Maryland.

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