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Date	1920 - 1936
Areas Of Involvement	American literature
Related People	Ernest Hemingway • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Hart Crane • John Dos Passos • Sherwood Anderson • E.E. Cummings • Archibald MacLeish • John Peale Bishop

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Passport detail showing a sepia-toned portrait of Ernest Hemingway as a young man in a suit and tie, with official stamps and the number 359666 below the photo.

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Hemingway in 1918

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald pose together in 1921; Zelda wears a fur coat and hat, while F. Scott wears a dark suit with a white collar.

Sylvia Beach stands in the doorway of Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris, holding a book, with the shop's name visible above the entrance.

Hart Crane, the American poet, seated and wearing a suit with a dark tie, looking slightly to the side in a black and white portrait.

John Dos Passos in a suit and glasses, holding a cigar and a match near his mouth, with a bookshelf partially visible on the left.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby raises a champagne glass, with 'The Great Gatsby' book cover superimposed and an arrow pointing to it.

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