Dos Passos Timeline

Here you can view a timeline of Dos Passos’s life. This timeline also includes worldwide events which influenced Dos Passos’s work as well as other significant historical events.

John Dos Passos was born January 14, 1896 to John Randolph Dos Passos and Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison	1896
The Spanish American War begins on April 24.	1898	The war officially ends that same year on December 10^th when peace treaties were signed in Paris.
	1907	Dos Passos enters Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut.
	1912	Dos Passos begins college at Harvard University (pictured). He stays there until 1916.
Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia on July 28; World War I begins in Europe.	1914
	1917	America enters World War I.
Dos Passos joins the ambulance service units in France and Italy. Pictured is one such ambulance team.	1917-1918
On June 28, World War I officially ends as Germany signs a peace treaty at Versailles.	1919
	1920 1921 1922 1923	Dos Passos publishes One Man's Initiation. Three Soldiers is published. A Pushcart at the Curb, and Rosinante to the Road Again are published. Streets of Night is published.
Dos Passos meets with Hemingway (pictured) for the first time in Paris; they become friends and share similar political views as they both support the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War	1924
	1925 1926-1929	Dos Passos publishes Manhattan Transfer Dos Passos directs New Playwrights' Theatre, NYC.
Facing the Chair is published. Dos Passos created this work in defense of Sacco and Vanzetti (pictured). Dos Passos also publishes Orient Express in this year.	1927
	1928 1929	Dos Passos spends several months in Russia studying socialism. Marries Katharine Smith.
Publishes The 42nd Parallel Visits Kentucky mines with Dreiser. Publishes 1919 Publishes The Big Money Signs "Open Letter to the Communist Party". Publishes Adventures of a Young Man	1930 1931 1932 1934 1936 1939
	1939	World War II begins on Sept. 1, when Germany invades Poland.
December 7^th: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor without warning. America officially enters World War II the following day.	1941
	1942	Dos Passos observes theatres of WWII, begins as a reporter. He serves as a reporter until 1945.
The unconditional surrender of Germany was signed at Reims on May 7 and ratified at Berlin on May 8.	1945	Also in 1945, Japan announced its surrender on August 14, and formally signs a treaty Sept. 2.
Dos Passos is in an car accident and loses sight in one eye because of this. His wife is killed in the accident.	1947	Also in 1947, Dos Passos is elected into American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Publishes The Ground we Stand On	1949	Dos Passos marries Elizabeth Holdridge this same year.
Dos Passos’s first child Lucy Hamlin Dos Passos is born.	1950
Dos Passos publishes ‘The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson’ a biography of Thomas Jefferson (pictured).	1954
Receives Gold Medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.	1957	Also in 1957, Dos Passos publishes The Men Who Made the Nation.
	1959	Publishes Prospects of a Golden Age.
Publishes Midcentury.	1961
	1966 1967	Publishes The Shackles of Power, also The Best Times: an informal memoir. Receives Feltrinelli Prize for Fiction.
Dies of heart failure in Baltimore on September 28. Two works are published posthumously, Easter Island and Century's Ebb.	1970 1974