WRITERS OF THE ROARING 20’S

By: Carolann and Melanie

The Lost Generation…

Included” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ford Maddox Ford, Zelda Fitzgerald. Ernest Hemingway, perhaps the leading literary figure and the decade, would take Steins’ phrase, and use it as an epigraph for his first novel, The Sun Also Rises. Because of this novels popularity the term “The Lost Generation” is the enduring term that has stayed associated with writes of the 1920’s. the lost generation defined the fact that WWI destroyed the idea of good things.

F. Scott Fitzgerald(1886-1940) Married to Zelda Fitzgerald.“You don’t write because you want to say something , you write because you have something to say.”Books:”The Beautiful And Damned” , “The Great Gatsby” , “This Side Of Paradise” , “Tender Is The Night” , “Last Tycoon”

(1899-1961) Started writing for the news paper in Kansas City at the age of 17.“All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.”Books: “A Farewell to Arms” , Big Two Hearted River” , “The Sun Also Rises” , “A Moveable Feast”

Ernest Hemingway

John Dos Passos(1896-1970) Joined with up to Sinclair, Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ben Shahn and Floyd Dell in the campaign against the proposed execution of Nicole“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own work”Books: “Manhattan Transfer” , “One Man’s Initiation” , “Three Soldiers”

(1876-1947) Founded the Anderson manufacturing company. Was instrumental in getting both William Faulker and Ernest Hemingway published.“That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts, but no such things as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about the world were truths and they were all beautiful.”Books:”Wines burg, Ohio” , “Dark Laughter” , “Poor White” , “Hello Towns!”

Sherwood Anderson

Kay Boyle

(1902-1992) Granddaughter of a publisher she grew up in several cities, but principally in Cincinnati, Ohio.“The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.”Books:”Death Of A Man” , “Crazy Hunter” , “Process” , “Year Before Last”

(1873-1939) Author of “Over Works.”“ One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences” Books: “Memories And Impression” , “The Good Soldier” , “A Reappraisal”

Ford Maddox Ford

Hart Crane(1899-1932) An American poet, He wrote very different.“It has taken a great deal of energy, which is not so difficult to summon as much necessary patience to wait , simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. “Poems: “A Name For All” , “At Melville’s Tomb” , “Atlantis” , “Carrier Letter” , “Exile”

(1900-1948) Dubbed the first “American flapper”, Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald.“ I don’t want to live – I want to love first and live incidentally.”Books:”Save Me The Waltz” , “Bits Of Paradise” , “Scandalabra (play)” , “Our Own Movie Queen” , “Southern Girl”

Zelda Fitzgerald

POP QUIZ!!!

1. Where did Kay Boyle grow up?2. How were Zelda and F. Scott related?3. Who said this “If there is a special Hell

for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own work”?

4. Who wrote “Memories And Impression”5. Sherwood Anderson (1876-?)