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EARLY 20 th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE USA became industrial giant Chicago Renaissance ( ) Lost Generation ( )

CONTENTS Eugene Gladstone O’Neill ( ) A Long Day’s Journey into Night (1940) Carl Sandburg ( ) Chicago (1914) Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ) John Steinbeck ( ) The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Eugene Gladstone O’Neill ( ) Born in hotel, father actor, mother drug addict Expelled university 3 period of dramas Realism, life experiences Three wives, three children, alcoholism Last 10 years cerebral atrophy Died in Boston hotel

Long Day’s Journey into Night (1941) Not performed in his life only in th Wedding Anniversary note to Carlotta 1956 posthumous Pulitzer Prize Play of autobiographical nature

Carl Sandburg ( ) Working class family finished schooling at 13 Different jobs, hobo Lombard College, writing Chicago Poems 1916 Abraham Lincoln biography serial

Chicago Poems (1916) First collection of poems Breakthrough Loud voice of the young proletarian

Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ) Middle class family Volunteer ambulance driver in Italy at 18 Reporter to different papers Paris Lost Generation Four wives, two sons Nobel Prize 1954 Alcoholism, depression

In Our Time: Soldier’s Home (1925) Title: home for old soldiers, symbolic Harold Krebs young soldier returns from World War I. alienated escapist

John Steinbeck ( ) Middle class family Stanford University, but never graduated War correspondent and script writer for Hollywood Three wives, one son Naturalist and realist style Nobel Prize 1962

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) Story of migrant labourers to California Oppression and slavery Realistic style Wins Pulitzer Prize