The Lost Generation
The Lost Generation writers included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald-----------------------------------------------------------
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald aka F. Scott Fitzgerald was a leading novelist in the 1920s or "The Jazz Age" as he called it. Few of his readers saw the serious side of his writing. He wasn't recognized as gifted during his lifetime. Many of his best works were written in the 1920s. Some of his works include This Side of Paradise (1920), The Beautiful and Damned (1921), The Flappers and Philosophers (1922), Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) and The Great Gatsby (1925).
Ernest Hemingway---------------------------------------------------------
Hemingway was a Jazz Age novelist and writer. In 1921 he was a writer and editor for a magazine in New York. He was one of the most influencial writers of his day. Hemingway Won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1954. In 1961 he commited suiside. Some of his works include In Our Time (1924), Torrents of Spring (1925), The Sun also Rises (1926), Men Without Women (1927) and A Farewell to Arms (1929).
Sinclair Lewis---------------------------------------------------------------
Lewis won the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 for Arrowsmith. He was the first American author to win the Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1930. In his lifetime, Sinclair Lewis wrote 22 works including Main Street (1920), Babbit (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1929) and Dodsworth (1929).
Ezra Pound---------------------------------------------------------------
Ezra Pound was a poet who wrote a series of 100 poems called Cantos. They were never finished. He was arrested for treason and kept in jail until authorities declared him insane. Pound was then moved to a mental hospital. He had a great influence on the development of modern literature.
Gertrude Stein---------------------------------------------
Gertrude Stein was a novelist who greatly influenced other writers in the 20s including Ernest Hemingway. She was very close to Picasso and Matisse before they became famous.
