I am very attracted to the literary moment of The Lost Generation. One reason is that my father was born in 1931. I remember growing up hearing the stories my family told about life then. I also loved looking at old family photos from that era. Some of my favorite stories were about Prohibition and my grandfather making boots during that time in the north woods of Wisconsin. The Lost Generation dated from the period of the 1920s and 1930s. They were American writers who lived and wrote in Paris immediately after World War I (American novel). The term “lost generation” comes from Gertrude Stein. A mechanic reportedly told Ms. Stein: “You are all a lost generation. » Later, Ms. Stein had a conversation with Ernest Hemingway in which she repeated this phase to him. Hemingway later used it as an epigraph for his first novel, The Sun Also Rises (Lost Generation). This phrase has come to represent a post-war generation disillusioned and losing its values. They had also lost faith in the idea of ​​human progress (American Novel). The term generally refers to associated American writers who wrote in 1920s Paris. The main writers associated with this movement are Hemingway and Fitzgerald, as well as a few other writers of the era. TS Eliot and Ezra Pound (American novel). Authors who produced some of America's greatest playwrights include Branch Cabell, Henry Miller, and Eugene O'Neill. Other authors who wrote about plays of comedy, social reform, and historical tragedies were Maxwell Anderson, Philip Barry, Elmer Rice, S. N. Behrman, Marc Connelly, Lillian Hellman, Clifford Odets, and Thornton Wilder. Arthur Miller, William Inge and Tennessee ...... middle of article ......edThe 1920s - The Roaring Twenties - The Twenties in History. Robert Scott, 2005. The web. March 17, 2010. "American Cultural History - Decade 1920-1929." Lone Star College-Kingwood Library Home Page. Peggy Whitley, 1999. The web. March 17, 2010. "The American Novel. Literary Chronology |." PBS. Educational Broadcasting Company, 2007. Web. March 17, 2010. .Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus. Free online reference, research and homework help. Infoplease.com. Columbia University Press, 2007. web. March 17, 2010. “The Lost Generation.” Montgomery College. Internet. March 17. 2010. .