John Dos Passos(1896-1970) was born in Chicago and graduated from
Harvard in 1916. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at
the end of World War I led him to writeThree Soldiersin 1919, the
first in a series of works that established him as one of the most
prolific, inventive, and influential American writers of the
twentieth century.
Townsend Ludington, volume editor, is Cary C. Boshamer Professor of
English and American Studies at the University of North Carolina
and author ofJohn Dos Passos- A Twentieth Century Odyssey.
"Dos Passos was an intrepid globe-trotter. . . . The travel book that is likely to trigger the greatest interest now is Orient Express, the story of his remarkable 1921-22 journey to Russia and the Middle East, which included three miserable weeks in Baghdad. He observed the creation of Iraq by the British, and wrote about Islamic fundamentalism, Babylon, and living in desert terrain." --The New York Times
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