Lost Generation

LostGeneration

129 years old
Lost Generation is traditionally attributed to Gertrude Stein and was then popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the epigraph to his novel The Sun...
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

male, deceased (1961)
writer, war correspondent, the old man and the sea, pulitzer prize, Short story writer, Short Story Author…LostGeneration
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part...
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

male, deceased (1940)
death by myocardial infarction, short stories, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Jazz Age, LostGeneration, Irish American
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century...
Malcolm Cowley

Malcolm Cowley

male, deceased (1989)
on the road, American, novelist, writer, World War I, Marxist…LostGeneration
Malcolm Cowley (August 28, 1898 Belsano, Cambria County, Pennsylvania - March 27, 1989) was an American novelist, poet, literary critic, and...
Harry Crosby

Harry Crosby

male, deceased (1929)
poet, death by firearm, suicide by firearm, German, World War I, montparnasse…LostGeneration
Harry Crosby (June 4, 1898 - December 10, 1929) was an American heir, bon vivant, poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in...
Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney

female, deceased (1972)
From France, polyamory, LGBT writer, from the United States, rive gauche, poet…LostGeneration
Natalie Clifford Barney (31 October 1876 - 2 February 1972) was an American expatriate who lived, wrote, and hosted a literary salon in Paris. She...
William Buehler Seabrook

William Buehler Seabrook

male, deceased (1945)
from Carroll County, Maryland, New York Times, Reader's Digest, travel, cosmopolitan magazine, vanity fair magazine…LostGeneration
William Buehler Seabrook (February 22 1884-1945) was an American Lost Generation occultist, explorer, traveller, and journalist, born in...
Waldo Peirce

Waldo Peirce

male, deceased (1970)
painter, modern painter, World War I, Croix de guerre recipient, from Maine, American…LostGeneration
Waldo Peirce (December 17, 1884 - March 8, 1970) was an American painter, born in Bangor, Maine. For many years, until his death, Peirce was both a...
Helen Chandler

Helen Chandler

female, deceased (1965)
buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Broadway theatre, Shakespearean, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., LostGeneration, Burials at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
Helen Chandler (February 1, 1906 - April 30, 1965) was an American film and theater actress. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Chandler began her...
Glenway Wescott

Glenway Wescott

male, deceased (1987)
University of Chicago, expatriot, LostGeneration, American expatriate community, homosexual, The Pilgrim Hawk A Love Story
Glenway Wescott (April 11, 1901 - February 22, 1987) was a major American novelist during the 1920-1940 period and a figure in the American...