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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. Gertrude Stein Stein and Toklas Hemingway in 1918 Ernest Hemingway 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. H.D. 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.
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Added a photo of Maria and Eugene Jolas to slideshow. Oct 20, 2026
Noted Dorothy Parker's and Donald Ogden Stewart's contributions to the Lost Generation and added media. Sep 17, 2026
Added a photo of and information about Janet Flanner. Jul 31, 2026
Article throroughly revised. Jul 13, 2026
Modified link of Web site: Khan Academy - A Lost Generation. Apr 17, 2026
Media added. Feb 18, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC News - WW1: Can we really know the Lost Generation? Dec 09, 2024
Add new Web site: International Journal of Science and Research - The Lost Generation: Melancholy and Joy for the Detachment from Reality in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Sep 17, 2024
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - The Lost Generation. Mar 28, 2024
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - A Lost Generation. Sep 16, 2022
Corrected display issue. Nov 27, 2019
Add new Web site: University of Oxford - Great Writers Inspire - Lost Generation. Mar 06, 2019
Media added. May 15, 2017
Article revised. May 15, 2017
Media removed. Jan 28, 2016
Add new Web site: British Library - The Lost Generation. Apr 02, 2014
Add new Web site: Montgomery College - The Lost Generation. Apr 16, 2013
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Lost Generation. Apr 16, 2013
Add new Web site: The History Guide - The Lost Generation of 1914. Aug 16, 2010
Photograph of Hemingway, Dos Passos, Evans, and Franklin added. Feb 23, 2009
Capitalization of e.e. cummings changed to E.E. Cummings. Feb 23, 2009
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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