Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos - Tapa dura

Physical description: xix, 662 p. : plates, ports. ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes index. Summary: Covering exactly sixty years, the correspondence begins in 1910 with an engaging and apologetic letter to Dos's headmaster at Choate School and ends in 1970 with a worldly and warm recommendation to the Century Association in behalf of his friend William Buckley. In between there is the extraordinary variety covering year at Harvard; World War I; travels in Spain; the Near East, and Russia; the American thirties; the Spanish Civil War; World War II; and postwar America, North and South. Subject: Dos Passos, John (1896-1970) - Correspondence - Biography. Authors, American - 20th century - Biography - Correspondence - Diaries. Novelists, American - 20th century - Correspondence - Diaries- Biography. Fiction in english - American writers - Dos Passos, John - diaries & correspondence. Other names: Ludington, Townsend. Genre: Biography. Autobiography. Illustrated.