By KATHLEEN SPALTRO During the Spanish Civil War, three Chicago-associated artists and supporters of the Spanish Republic— John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, and Orson Welles—intended to raise money for the Republican cause by working on a film, Joris Ivens’s documentary The Spanish Earth. Dos Passos, born in Chicago, initially joined with such other American writers … Continue reading Touchstone for Character: Dos Passos, Hemingway, Welles, and ‘The Spanish Earth’