1896-- Born Janaury 14 to John Randolph Dos Passos and Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison.
1907-- Enters Choate School, Wallingford, Conn.
1912-16-- Is a student at Harvard.
1917-18-- Is in ambulance service units in France and Italy.
1918-- Enlists in the U.S. Army Medical Corps.
1920-- Publishes One Man's Initiation -- 1917.
1921-- Publishes Three Soldiers, the novel is met with wide acclaim.
1922-- Publishes A Pushcart at the Curb , and Rosinante to the Road Again.
1923-- Publishes Streets of Night.
1924-- Meets with Hemingway in Paris, they form association that will last ten years.
1925-- Publishes Manhattan Transfer.
1926-1929-- Directs New Playwrights' Theatre, NYC.
1927-- Publishes Facing the Chair , a work defending immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti, and Orient Express.
1928-- Spends several months in Russia studying the socialist view.
1929-- Marries Katharine Smith.
1931-- Visits Kentucky mines with Dreiser.
1934-- Signs "Open Letter to the Communist Party," criticizing its stifling of dissent.
1938-- Publishes USA's three volumes as a set.
1939-- Draws attacks from former radical allies for Adventures of a Young Man.
1949-- Publishes political/philosophical The Ground we Stand On..
1942-45-- Observes theatres of WWII, begins serving as a reporter.
1947-- Loses sight in one eye in an auto accident; his wife is killed. Is elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters.
1949-- Marries Elizabeth Holdridge.
1950-- Lucy Hamlin Dos Passos is born.
1954-- Publishes Jefferson biography.
1957-- Receives Gold Medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Publishes The Men Who Made the Nation.
1959-- Publishes Prospects of a Golden Age.
1961-- Midcentury, a new novel, is published to good critical notices.
1966-- Publishes The Shackles of Power , also The Best Times, an informal memoir.
1967-- Receives Feltrinelli Prize for Fiction.
1970-- Dies of heart failure in Baltimore on September 28.
1974-- Two works are published posthumously, Easter Island -- and Cetury's Ebb.
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