About
A twentieth-century American novelist, he is best known for his U.S.A. Trilogy, which includes The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money. His first commercially successful work, Manhattan Transfer, was published in 1925.
Before Fame
He attended Harvard College and subsequently traveled to Spain to study art and architecture. He went on to serve in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War I.
Trivia
An artist as well as a writer, he designed complex cover art for his books.
Family Life
He was the illegitimate child of Lucy Madison and
Associated With
A member of the Lost Generation, he was a friend of Ernest Hemingway.
