John Dos Passos

His friend Cummings and he volunteered as WWI ambulance drivers. Cendrars and Léger were good Paris café-haunting friends — he and Léger talked endlessly, and he translated Cendrars into English, though found himself landed with Tzara’s café bill. Hemingway and he went to cycle-races together, survived a car-crash, but split bitterly over events in civil-war Spain (he had gone to help Hemingway and Ivens make a film, and met his kindred spirit Orwell.) He wrote an introduction to his friend Grosz’s drawings, and was acqainted with Faulkner and Fitzgerald (influencing both), Rivera, Picasso and Goncharova.