Lost Generation

                       The term Lost Generation was coined by Gertrude Stein to refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Seeking the bohemian lifestyle and rejecting the values of American materialism, a number of intellectual poets, artists and writers fled to France in the post World War I years. Speaking to Ernest Hemingway, Stein said, "you are all lost generation." The term stuck and the mystique surrounding these individuals continues to fascinate us. Full of youthful idealism, these individuals sought the meaning of life, drank excessively, had love affairs and created some of the finest American literature to date. There were many literary artists involved in the groups known as the Lost Generation. The three best known are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and John Passer. Other usually included among the list are; Sherwood Anderson T.S. Eliot, Willian Pierce, Henry Miller, C.S. Lewis, George Burns, William Faulkner, Ford Maddox Ford, James Joyace, Walter Lippman and Dorothy Parker. The generation is something known as the World War I Generation or the Roaring 20s Generation. In Europe they are most often known as the Generation of 1914, named after the year World War I began. In France, the country in which many expatriates settled they are called the Generation of Fire. William Strauss and Neil Hover in their book Generations list  the generation's  birth years as 1883 to 1900. Their typical grandparents were the Guilded Generation; their grandparents were the Progressive Generation and Missionary Generation. Their children were the G.I. Generation and Silent Generation; their typical grandchildren were Baby Boomers.

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