Lost Generation

The Lost Generation is a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and became associated with expatriate life and postwar disillusionment in the 1920s.

Ernest Hemingway: An American novelist and short-story writer whose work often depicts war, loss, and endurance. His expatriate life and fiction became central to the generation’s public image.
The Sun Also Rises: A 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel following expatriates traveling from Paris to Spain. Its disillusioned postwar characters became a defining literary portrait of the group.
World War I: A global war fought from 1914 to 1918 among the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. Its violence disrupted the beliefs and lives of writers who came of age during it.
Modernism: A broad movement in arts and literature that broke with established forms in response to modern life. Lost Generation writing belongs to a larger movement that included many artists beyond this cohort.
Gertrude Stein: An American writer and art collector who hosted a celebrated literary and artistic circle in Paris. She popularized the phrase “Lost Generation” through her association with Hemingway.
A Moveable Feast: Ernest Hemingway’s posthumously published memoir of his early years in Paris. It recounts the cafés, friendships, and hardships associated with expatriate literary life.
Gertrude Stein’s Paris salon: The Paris home and gathering place where Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas hosted artists and writers. The salon connected expatriate writers and helped circulate the phrase behind the group’s name.
Beat Generation: A group of American writers associated with postwar dissent and experimental literature in the 1950s. It offers a later literary generation whose rebellion arose from a different historical crisis.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: An American novelist and short-story writer known for depicting wealth, ambition, and disillusionment in the Jazz Age. His fiction captured the decade’s glamour and instability alongside expatriate writers.
Tender Is the Night: A 1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel about an American couple living among expatriates in Europe. Its damaged characters extend the generation’s portrait of wealth and postwar disillusionment.

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