Chosen Country

John Dos Passos

Houghton Mifflin, 1951 - Fiction - 485 pages

A novel about a man with a European background and a woman whose culture is mid-west American, following their different lives after a childhood meeting until their reunion as adults after World War I.

Contents

• JAMES KNOX Polk Pignatelli 18481917: 1
• The Little River Rubicon: 17
• KATHRYN JAY 18621914: 40

About the 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Chosen Country; Contemporary chronicle; Sentry edition
• Author: John Dos Passos
• Edition: 6
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1951
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 6, 2008
• ISBN: 0598972862, 9780598972866
• Length: 485 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary