By Desi Moses, Breanna Rizzuto & Gisela Saucedo The Lost Generation By Desi Moses, Breanna Rizzuto & Gisela Saucedo

What is The Lost Generation? The Lost Generation is a set of literary writers from the 1920s. They gained this name because of their belief that they were lost in the greedy and materialistic world that was lacking moral values. Most of these writers ended up going to Greenwich Village, that was part of Manhattan.

When it was… The “Lost Generation” Began in the 1920’s and ended in the early 1930’s.

WHO WAS INVOLVED IN “THE LOST GENERATION” “The Lost Generation” consisted of many great American Authors. Hart Crane John Dos Passos William Fualkner F. Scott Fitzgerald Earnest Hemingway Thornton Wilder Thomas Wolf

Where was it? Many of these writers ended up traveling to Greenwich Village, part of Manhattan, in New York City. Greenwich was a cultural center for bohemians or rebels against conventional lifestyles. Others also went to Paris or parts of Europe to become more intellectual stimulating.

Why did it come about in this decade? The writers of this decade were inspired by the expirence of the end of the World War I and they express their thoughts about the reject, values of American materialism.

What effects did it have on the decade or later? Their innovation chanllenge the writingd and expression and paved the way for subsequent generations of writers.

Why is it important for us to leatn about it? Because it aided in the desire for a cosmopolitan culture to be established and to exist and America Because when American culture became more defined, European and other countries began to recognize a destintive democratic American culture.