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Category: Arts & Culture
Date:
1920 - 1936
Areas Of Involvement:
American literature
Related People:
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sherwood Anderson
John Dos Passos
E.E. Cummings
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Lost Generation, a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term is also used more generally to refer to the post-World War I generation. The generation was “lost” in the sense that its inherited values were no longer relevant in the postwar world and because of its spiritual alienation from a United States that, basking under Pres. Warren G. Harding’s “back to normalcy” policy, seemed to its members to be hopelessly provincial, materialistic, and emotionally barren. The term embraces Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos ...(100 of 263 words)

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