You may have read about the Lost Generation - the cohort of young adults who grew up, disoriented, amid the chaos engendered by World War I and its aftermath. It included some of the era’s literary giants, among them F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.E. Cummings, John Dos Passos and - most famously - Ernest Hemingway, who popularized the term in his 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises.
But it was Gertrude Stein who coined the term.
"You are all a lost generation. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction . . .You are all a lost generation," Stein said to Hemingway.
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