1. Other pre-WWII authors to know
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2. THE LOST GENERATION
American writers who were disillusioned with conservative American Society after WWI. Many moved to Europe which they felt was more free and open.
TRAITS
Decadence (a lot of aimless drinking and poverty)
Disillusionment
Idealizing the past (as a way of avoiding dealing with the heavy stuff, especially WWI
Gender Roles/loss of manhood.

3. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Very “manly”—lots of war, hunting, fishing in his stories.
Simplified language. Spare and direct prose.
Won Nobel Prize for “The Old Man and the Sea”
We read “The Old Man At the Bridge”

4. GERTRUDE STEIN Poet Unofficial “leader” of Lost Generation.
Rebel/Modernist

5. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby
Sad and Tragic life

6. Others
Sherwood Anderson
Sinclair Lewis