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Lost Generation
Also Known As The Lost Generation
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A group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s. Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term, which Ernest Hemingway then popularized by using it as the epigraph of his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises. Its notable members included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Stein herself, Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Jean Rhys.
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Period, To (Year)The Paris expatriate community dispersed through the Depression years with no single agreed closing date; some accounts extend the generation to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Period, From (Year) Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Lost Generation (Wikipedia)
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Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term, and it was subsequently popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it in the epigraph for his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises: 'You are all a lost generation.'
1. Lost Generation (Wikipedia)
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Notable writers of the Lost Generation include American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist Thomas Wolfe, American novelist and art collector Gertrude Stein, American novelist Ernest Hemingway, American poet Dorothy Parker, American-British poet and playwright T. S. Eliot, American poet and critic Ezra Pound, British novelist Jean Rhys.
1. Lost Generation (Wikipedia)
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It is particularly prominent in The Great Gatsby, in which the character Nick Carraway comes to realize the corruption that surrounds him.
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