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    What authors were in the Lost Generation?

    Question #24334. Asked by KB. (Nov 18 02 2:16 AM)


    Tabby Tom

    		The Oxford Companion to Twentuieth Century Literatue oin English says that the phrase is a term for the American and British writers who chose to live in Europe, chiefly in Paris, during the 1920s. It lists the following as 'notable members':

    Ernest Hemingway
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Ezra Pound
    Ford Madox Ford
    James Joyce
    Malcolm Cowley
    Robert McAlmon
    Archibald MacLeish
    John Dos Passos
    e. e. cummings
    Hart Crane

    The term was invented by Gertrude Stein.

    Nov 18 02, 12:54 PM

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