John Dos Passos

American novelist (1896–1970), best known for the experimental U.S.A. trilogy with its collage of narrative, biography, newsreel, and "camera eye" — a landmark of literary modernism.

A Harvard graduate who served as a wartime ambulance driver, Dos Passos traveled widely and absorbed European art, literature, and architecture. His fiction fused documentary technique with panoramic social ambition, aiming to capture the whole texture of American life in the machine age.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Dos Passos was part of the Greenwich Village literary avant-garde of the 1920s–30s that overlapped with Fuller's early New York years, a milieu of writers and artists reckoning with modernity and the machine. His presence in the collection marks the cultural, rather than technical, side of Fuller's world; no work currently in the corpus links to him directly.

See Also

• Lewis Mumford (Lewis Mumford) — contemporary chronicler of the same machine-age America
• People in Fuller's Orbit (People in Fuller's Orbit) — the register of figures around Fuller in which he appears

Sources

• John Dos Passos (source reference) — Zotero People collection (Wikipedia entry)