1. The Lost Generation
By Brigid Clark

2. What it Means:
Used to characterize the feeling of disillusionment of
American Writers in Europe (especially Paris) during
WWI to WWII
Refers to the generation of young people who came of age
during and shortly after World War I, alos known as the
World War I Generation.
Lost Generation writers considered America not as great as
the world believed because the country was devoid of a
multinational society

3. “You are all a lost generation.”
— Ernest Hemingway
From The Sun also Rises

5. Writers of the Lost
Generation
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Dos Passos Archibald MacLeish
E.E. Cummings Ezra Pound
Sherwood Anderson
John Steinback

6. Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was born on July
21, 1899 in Illinois. He was an
American writer and journalist. During
his lifetime he had 7 novels, 6
collections of short stories, and 2 works
of non-fiction published, with a further 3
novels and 4 collections of short stories
published posthumously. Hemingway's
distinctive writing style had an
enormous influence on 20th-century
fiction. Hemingway produced most of
his work between the mid-1920s and
the mid-1950s, and his career peaked
in 1954 when he won the Nobel Prize
in Literature. Many of his works are
considered classics of American
literature. He died on July 2, 1961.
Works Impact

7. Works
Novels
(1926) The Torrents of Spring
(1926) The Sun Also Rises
(1929) A Farewell to Arms
(1937) To Have and Have Not
(1940) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1950) Across the River and Into the Trees
(1952) The Old Man and the Sea
(1970) Islands in the Stream
(1986) The Garden of Eden
(1999) True at First Light
Collections
(1923) Three Stories and Ten Poems
(1925) In Our Time
(1927) Men Without Women
(1933) Winner Take Nothing
(1936) The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(1938) The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
(1969) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
(1972) The Nick Adams Stories
(1987) The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
(1995) Everyman's Library: The Collected Stories
Stage Plays
(1961) A Short Happy Life
(1967) The Hemingway Hero (working title was: Of Love and Death)

8. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St.
Paul, Minnesota. He was an American author of novels and short
stories, whose works are representative of the Jazz Age, a term he actually
created. Fitzgerald's work has inspired writers since its publication. J.D.
Salinger even saw himself as “Fitzgerald’s successor”. Fitzgerald died on
December 21, 1940.
Works Impact

9. Works
Novels
This Side of Paradise (New York: Charles Short Stories
Scribner's Sons, 1920) Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Short Story, 1920)
The Beautiful and Damned (New York: Head and Shoulders (Short Story, 1920)
Scribner, 1922) The Ice Palace (Short Story, 1920)
The Great Gatsby (New York: Scribner, 1925) May Day (Novelette, 1920)
Tender Is the Night (New York: Scribner, 1934) The Offshore Pirate (Short Story, 1920)
The Last Tycoon (New York: Scribners, published The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Short
posthumously, 1941) Story, 1921)
Short Story Collections The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Novella, 1922)
Flappers and Philosophers (Short Story Winter Dreams (Short Story, 1922)
Collection, 1920) Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar (Short Story, 1923)
Tales of the Jazz Age (Short Story The Rich Boy (Short Story, 1926)
Collection, 1922) The Freshest Boy (Short Story, 1928)
All the Sad Young Men (Short Story Magnetism (Short Story 1928)
Collection, 1926) A New Leaf (Short Story, 1931)
Taps at Reveille (Short Story Collection, 1935) Babylon Revisited (Short story, 1931)
Other Crazy Sunday (Short Story, 1932)
The Vegetable, or From President to The Fiend (Short Story, 1935)
Postman (play, 1923) The Bridal Party (Short Story)
The Crack-Up (essays, 1945) The Baby Party (Short Story)
The Lost Decade (Short Story, 1938)

10. John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos, born on January
14, 1869, in Chicago, Illinois, was an
American novelist and artist. Passos wrote
forty-two novels, as well as
poems, essays, and plays, and created more
than 400 pieces of art. Passos' revolutionary
works of fiction were major influence in
American literture. In an 1936 essay, Joe
Sartre referred to Dos Passos as "the greatest
writer of our time". Passos died on
September 28, 1970.
Works Impact

11. Works
The Grand Design (1949) One Man's Initiation: 1917 (1920)
Chosen Country (1951) Three Soldiers (1921)
Most Likely to Succeed (1954) A Pushcart at the Curb (1922)
The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson (1954) Rosinante to the Road Again (1922)
The Men Who Made the Nation (1957) Streets of Night (1923)
The Great Days (1958) Manhattan Transfer (1925)
Prospects of a Golden Age (1959) Facing the Chair (1927)
Midcentury (1961) Orient Express (1927)
Mr. Wilson's War (1962) U.S.A. (1938). Three-volume set includes
Brazil on the Move (1963) The 42nd Parallel (1930)
The Best Times: An Informal Memoir (1966) Nineteen Nineteen (1932)
The Shackles of Power (1966) The Big Money (1936)
World in a Glass - A View of Our Century From the The Ground we Stand On (1949)
Novels of John Dos Passos (1966) District of Columbia (1952). Three-volume set
The Portugal Story (1969) includes
Century's Ebb: The Thirteenth Chronicle (1970) Adventures of a Young Man (1939)
Easter Island: Island of Enigmas (1970) Number One (1943)
Lettres à Germaine Lucas Championnière (2007) -
only in French

12. E.E.Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings was born on
October 14, 1894 in
Cambridge, Massachusettes. He was
an American
poet, painter, essayist, author, and
playwright. His work consists of 3,000
poems, 2 autobiographical novels, 4
plays and several essays. Despite
Cummings' use of avant-garde style, his
work is usually conventional.
Cummings' poetry often deals with
themes of love and nature, as well as
the relationship of the individual to the
masses and to the world. Cummings
died on September 3 1962.
Works Impact

13. Works
The Enormous Room (1922), a novel
Tulips and Chimneys (1923)
& (1925) (self-published)
XLI Poems (1925)
is 5 (1926)
HIM (1927) (a play)
ViVa (1931)
Eimi (1933)
No Thanks (1935)
Collected Poems (1960)
50 Poems (1940)
1 × 1 (1944)
XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950)
i—six nonlectures (1953) Harvard
University Press
Poems, 1923-1954 (1954)
95 Poems (1958)
73 Poems (1963) (posthumous)
Fairy Tales (1965) (posthumous)

14. Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish, born on May
7, 1892, in Glencoe, Illinois, was an
American poet, writer and
the Librarian of Congress. He is
associated with the Modernist school
of poetry. He received three Pulitzer
Prizes for his work. MacLeish worked
to promote the arts, culture, and
libraries. In 1923 MacLeish moved
to Paris where they joined a group of
literary refugees including Ernest
Hemingway, Zelda and F. Scott
Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos Fernand
Léger, Pablo Picasso, Dorothy
Parker and Robert Benchley.
MacLeish died on April 20, 1982.
Works Impact

15. Works
Tower of Ivory. (1917)
Happy Marriage and Other Poems (1924).
The Pot of Earth. (1925)
Streets of the Earth. (1926)
The Hamlet of A. MacLeish. (1928)
Conquistador. (1932)
Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City. (1933)
Panic. (1935)
Public Speech. (1936)
The Fall of the City.(1937)
Air Raid. (1938)
America Was Promises. (1939)
The Irresponsibles. (1940)
The American Cause and A Time to Speak.
(1941)
Active and Other Poems. (1948)
Poetry and Opinions. (1950)
Collected Poems, 1917-1952. (1952)
J.B. (1958)

16. Ezra Pound
Ezra Loomis Pound was born on October 30, 1885, and
was a well
known American poet, critic and intellectual, and was a
major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half
of the 20th century. He is considered by many to be the
poet responsible for defining a modernist visual in
poetry. In the 1920s, Pound began exchanging ideas
between popular ?British and American writers, and
became well-known for his advancement of writers such
as Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Ernest
Hemingway and James Joyce. Pound contributed
Imagism to his poetry, which emphasized precision and
exactness in his work. Pound’s goal was to give his
poetry a musical tone, rather than the typical
metronome. Pound died on November 1, in the year
1972.
Works Impact

17. Works
1930 Imaginary Letters, essays
1908 A Lume Spento, poems (Venice) 1931 How to Read, essays
1908 A Quinzaine for This Yule, poems (London). 1937 The Fifth Decade of Cantos, poems (London)
1909 Personae, poems (London) 1937 Polite Essays, essays
1909 Exultations, poems (London) 1937 Digest of the Analects, by Confucius, translation
1910 Provenca, poems (Boston) 1938 Culture, essays
1910 The Spirit of Romance, essays (London) 1939 What Is Money For?, essays
1911 Canzoni, poems (London) 1940 Cantos LII-LXXI, poems
1912 Ripostes, poems (London) 1944 Introduzione alla Natura Economica degli
1916 "The Lake Isle", poem S.U.A., prose
1916 Lustra, poems. 1947 Confucius: the Unwobbling pivot & the Great
1917 Twelve Dialogues of Fontenelle, translations digest, translation
1928 A Draft of the Cantos 17–27, poems 1949 Elektra (started in 1949, first performed 1987), a
1928 Selected Poems, edited by T. S. play by Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming
Eliot (London) 1956 Sophocles: The Women of Trachis. A Version by
1928 Ta hio, the great learning, newly rendered Ezra Pound, translation (London)
into the American language, translation 1959 Thrones: 96–109 de los Cantares, poems
1930 A Draft of XXX Cantos, poems (New York) (Milan)
1968 Drafts and Fragments: Cantos CX-
CXVII, poems

18. Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson was an American novelist
and short story writer born in September
13, 1876. He has influenced a variety of
artists, including Ernest Hemingway, William
Faulkner, and John Steinbeck. He is most
famous for his collection of short stories known
as Winesburg, Ohio (1919). His themes are
comparable to those
many modernist writers, and include Anderson
did on March 8, 1941 in South America. His
epitaph reads, "Life, Not Death, is the Great
Adventure."
Works Impact

19. Windy McPherson's Son, (1916, novel)
Works
Marching Men, (1917, novel) Dreiser: A Biography, (1936, non-fiction)
Winesburg, Ohio, (1919, novel) Winesburg and Others, (1937, play)
Poor White, (1920, novel) Home Town, (1940, novel)
Triumph of the Egg, (1921, short stories) San Francisco at Christmas, (1940, memoirs)
Many Marriages, (1923, novel) Lives of Animals, (1966, novel)
Horses and Men, (1923, short stories) Return to Winesburg, Ohio, (1967, essays)
A Story-Teller's Story, (1924, semi- The Memoirs of Sherwood Anderson, (1968, memoirs)
autobiographical novel) No Swank, (1970, novel)
Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs, (1924, memoirs) Perhaps Women, (1970, novel)
An Exhibition of Paintings By Alfred H. The Buck Fever Papers, (1971, essays)
Maurer, (1924, non-fiction) Ten Short Plays, (1972, plays)
Dark Laughter, (1925, novel) Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein: Correspondence and
A Meeting South, (1925, novel) Personal Essays, (1972, essays)
Modern Writer, (1925, non-fiction) Nearer the Grass Roots, (1976, novel)
Tar: A Midwest Childhood, (1926, semi- The Writer at His Craft, (1978, non-fiction)
autobiographical novel) Paul Rosenfeld: Voyager in the Arts, (1978, nonfiction)
Sherwood Anderson's Notebook, (1926, memoirs)The Teller's Tale, (1982, novel)
Hello Towns, (1929, non-fiction) Selected Letters: 1916 – 1933, (1984, letters)
Alice: The Lost Novel, (1929, novel) Writer's Diary: 1936–1941, (1987, memoir)
Onto Being Published, (1930, non-fiction) Early Writings of Sherwood Anderson, (1989, short stories)
Beyond Desire, (1932, novel) Love Letters to Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, (1990, letters)
Death in the Woods, (1933, short stories) The Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson, (1995, short
Puzzled America, (1935, essays) stories)
Kit Brandon, (1936, novel) Southern Odyssey: Selected Writings By Sherwood
Anderson, (1998, short stories)

20. John Steinback
John Steinbeck was an American writer. He
wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The
Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the novel Of
Mice and Men (1937). He wrote sixteen
novels and five collections of short stories. In
1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for
Literature. Many of Steinbeck's works are on
required reading lists in American high
schools. Yet, coincidentally, The Grapes of
Wrath has been censored out of many high
school reading lists. In his novels, Steinbeck
uses gorgeous imagery to convey real
characters that possess traits that represent
society at large. Steinbeck died on
December 20, 1968.
Works Impact

21. Works
Cup of Gold (1927) The Wayward Bus (1947)
The Pastures of Heaven (1932) The Pearl (1947)
The Red Pony (1933) A Russian Journal (1948)
To a God Unknown (1933) Burning Bright (1950)
Tortilla Flat (1935) The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
In Dubious Battle (1936) East of Eden (1952)
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Sweet Thursday (1954)
Grapes of Wrath (1936)
The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A
Of Mice and Men (1937) Fabrication (1957)
The Long Valley (1938) Once There Was A War (1958)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
The Forgotten Village (1941) Travels with Charley: In Search of
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of America (1962)
Travel and Research (1941) America and Americans (1966)
The Moon Is Down (1942) Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden
Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Letters (1969)
Team (1942) Viva Zapata! (1975)
Cannery Row (1945) The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble
Knights (1976)

22. IMPACT
America's awareness of its lack of cosmopolitanism helped
establish America’s culture as it is today.
As American customs became more defined, European and
other countries recognized America as a distinctive culture
and nation.
Beyond this, the novels of the Lost Generation give insight
into the American life during the 1920s