The Lost Generation

Ernest Hemingway

• Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899

• He was a veteran of World War I

• Wrote four books in the 1920’s

• Invented the term “The lost generation”

Hemingway Continued

• Won the Nobel Prize in 1954

• Was married four times

• Father killed himself at early age

• Wrote twenty books • Eventually killed

himself with a shotgun

Hemingway Personal Life

• Attempted suicide in the Spring of 1961

• Had a nice house in Key West

• He was good at sports and school

• Ring Larder Jr. was his pen name

Hemingway in WW I

• Farwell to Arms was based on his experiences

• Joined the Red Cross Ambulance Corps

• In 1918 Hemingway was wounded delivering supplies

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

• Was born on September 26, 1896

• Was Born in St. Paul Minnesota

• Wrote many excellent novels

• Had a job at MGM• His wife went CRAZY

Fitzgerald Personal Life

• Was born into a rich family

• Related to Francis Scott Key

• Attended Princeton University

• First story was published in his schools newspaper

Fitzgerald Illness and Death

• Had been an alcoholic since college

• Suffered two heart attacks in 1940

• He died waiting for his doctor after the 2nd heart attack

e e cummings

• Was born on Oct. 14, 1894

• Born in Cambridge, Mass.

• Poet who spelled name without capitals

• Attended Harvard University

• Served in WW I

cummings Personal Life

• Married three times• Father killed in a car

crash• Fathers death had

impact on poems• God was a major

topic in poems

Career

• In 1917 Cummings enlisted in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps

• The Enormous Room was based off time in a detention camp

John Dos Passos

• Was born Jan. 14, 1896

• Died in September of 1970

• Has a literary award named after him

• Wrote novels such as Three Soldiers and Mr. Wilsons War

Passos Early Life

• Born in Chicago• Traveled with a tutor

through Europe • Attended Harvard in

1912• Was a friend of e e

cummings• Was in the U.S. Army

Medical Corps

Career

• First novel was published in 1920

• Became famous with his novel Three Soldiers

• Wrote about injustice such as Sacco and Vanzetti

• Worked as a journalist covering WW II

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