The U.S.A. Trilogy is the major work of American writer John Dos Passos. It comprises the novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936), which were published together as one novel cycle in 1938. Dos Passos used an experimental technique in this trilogy, incorporating fictional realism, newspaper clippings, biography and sections of autobiographical stream of consciousness to paint a vast and colorful landscape of American culture during the first decades of the twentieth century. John Roderigo Dos Passos, born January 14, 1896 in Chicago, Illinois, United States - died September 28, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland, was a novelist and artist. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that develop a single theme even though they are generally created at different times. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar (often from (1900 to 1999 in common usage). ...

Dos Passos' trilogy relates the lives of many characters as the struggle to find a place in American society during the early part of the twentieth century. Each character is presented to readers from their childhood on, and although many of his sections are quite short, one of the successes of Dos Passos' style is that readers feel they are reading about the whole life of a character. Interspersed with the fictional sections about his characters Dos Passos has included sections of biography and autobiography; and he has interpolated newspaper clippings and song lyrics. Dos Passos titles his autobiographical sections The Camera Eye, the sections of headlines Newsreel, and has individually labeled each short biography.