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  1. 1896-1970. US author, born in Chicago. He
  2. made a reputation with the war novels One
  3. Man's Initiation 1919 and Three Soldiers
  4. 1921. His greatest work is the USA trilogy
  5. 1930-36, which gives a panoramic view of US
  6. life through the device of placing fictitious
  7. characters against the real setting of
  8. newspaper headlines and contemporary events.
  9.