The Best Times: An Informal Memoir

A record of his childhood, young adulthood, and twenties, The Best Times is a collage of cherished memories. He reflects on the joys of an itinerant life enriched by new and diverse friendships, customs, cultures, and cuisines.

Luminary personalities and landscapes abound in the 1920s literary world Dos Passos loved. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Horsley Gantt—they are his beloved friends. Spain, the French Riviera, Paris, Persia, the Caucasus—they are his beloved footpaths.

• The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
• Three Soldiers (Penguin Classics)
• Manhattan Transfer: A Novel
• The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy
• 1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy
• John Dos Passos: A 20th-century Odyssey 1st edition by Ludington, Townsend (1980) Hardcover
• The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy
• Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas