The Lost Generation
The Lost Generation
Ernest Hemingway
• Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899
• He was a veteran of World War I
• Wrote four books in the 1920’s
• Invented the term “The lost generation”
Hemingway Continued
• Won the Nobel Prize in 1954
• Was married four times
• Father killed himself at early age
• Wrote twenty books • Eventually killed
himself with a shotgun
Hemingway Personal Life
• Attempted suicide in the Spring of 1961
• Had a nice house in Key West
• He was good at sports and school
• Ring Larder Jr. was his pen name
Hemingway in WW I
• Farwell to Arms was based on his experiences
• Joined the Red Cross Ambulance Corps
• In 1918 Hemingway was wounded delivering supplies
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
• Was born on September 26, 1896
• Was Born in St. Paul Minnesota
• Wrote many excellent novels
• Had a job at MGM• His wife went CRAZY
Fitzgerald Personal Life
• Was born into a rich family
• Related to Francis Scott Key
• Attended Princeton University
• First story was published in his schools newspaper
Fitzgerald Illness and Death
• Had been an alcoholic since college
• Suffered two heart attacks in 1940
• He died waiting for his doctor after the 2nd heart attack
e e cummings
• Was born on Oct. 14, 1894
• Born in Cambridge, Mass.
• Poet who spelled name without capitals
• Attended Harvard University
• Served in WW I
cummings Personal Life
• Married three times• Father killed in a car
crash• Fathers death had
impact on poems• God was a major
topic in poems
Career
• In 1917 Cummings enlisted in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps
• The Enormous Room was based off time in a detention camp
John Dos Passos
• Was born Jan. 14, 1896
• Died in September of 1970
• Has a literary award named after him
• Wrote novels such as Three Soldiers and Mr. Wilsons War
Passos Early Life
• Born in Chicago• Traveled with a tutor
through Europe • Attended Harvard in
1912• Was a friend of e e
cummings• Was in the U.S. Army
Medical Corps
Career
• First novel was published in 1920
• Became famous with his novel Three Soldiers
• Wrote about injustice such as Sacco and Vanzetti
• Worked as a journalist covering WW II
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