Lost Generation: Media
American literature
Videos
The Great Gatsby: From Flop to Great American Novel
How did Gatsby become so…great?
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Countee Cullen's Poem “Confession”: Reading and Analysis
“If for a day joy masters me / Think not my wounds are healed.”
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Images
Passport photo of Hemingway
Detail of Ernest Hemingway's 1923 passport.
Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Gertrude Stein
American writer Gertrude Stein at her Paris studio, with a portrait of her by Pablo...
Wide World Photos/New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-DIG-ppmsca-30616)
Stein and Toklas
Gertrude Stein (left) and Alice B. Toklas arriving in New York aboard the S.S. Champlain,...
AP/Shutterstock.com
Hemingway in 1918
Ernest Hemingway in Milan, Italy, 1918.
Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Ernest Hemingway
American author Ernest Hemingway outside of his residence at 113 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs,...
Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lost Generation couple Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921.
Everett Collection/age fotostock
Sylvia Beach
Bookseller Sylvia Beach standing in the doorway of her shop Shakespeare and Company,...
© Pictorial Parade/Hulton Archive—Archive Photos/Getty Images
H.D.
Imagist poet H.D., 1921.
H.D. Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Janet Flanner
American writer Janet Flanner examining a copy of The New Yorker, for which...
Everett Collection/Alamy
Maria and Eugene Jolas
American poets Maria Jolas (left) and Eugene Jolas founded the revolutionary literary...
© ARCHIVIO GBB/Alamy
The Sun Also Rises
First edition cover of Ernest Hemingway's first novel The Sun Also Rises...
© Raptis Rare Books
Hemingway in a Red Cross ambulance, Italy, 1918
During World War I, Ernest Hemingway was an ambulance driver for the American Red...
Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Celebrated wit Dorothy Parker, 1939
American poet, short-story writer, screenwriter, and critic Dorothy Parker was one...
Culver Pictures
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