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This article contains a list of writers from a variety of national backgrounds who have been considered to be part of the Lost Generation. [1] The Lost Generation includes people born between 1883 and 1900, and the term is generally applied to reference the work of these individuals during the 1920s.
The main article for this category is List of writers of the Lost Generation. Pages in category "Lost Generation writers" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
The Lost Generation was the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s, and were the first generation to mature in the 20th century .
Amongst the writers of the Lost Generation, Boyle was among the most profilific and her works have continued to have significance even after her death in 1992. Boyle was particularly acclaimed for her collection of Short Stories and referenced by film critic Ann Hornaday as a survivor of the "Halcon Days of Paris in the 1920s".
The term 'Lost Generation' is traditionally attributed to Gertrude Stein and was then popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the epigraph to his novel The Sun Also Rises, and his memoir A Moveable Feast. It refers to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris and other parts of Europe from the time period which saw the end of World ...
Authors of Generational Politics in the United States claim that all the previous generations (The Silent generation, Baby Boomers, and Gen X) were more polarized in their political views than ...
Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic.His best known works include his first book of poetry, Blue Juniata (1929), and his memoir, Exile's Return (1934; rev. 1951), written as a chronicler and fellow traveller of the Lost Generation and an influential editor and talent scout at Viking Press.
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist. [1] [2] He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. [1]