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Lost Generation

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Lost Generation

Group of U.S. writers who came of age during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s; more broadly, the entire post–World War I American generation. The term was coined by Gertrude Stein in a remark to Ernest Hemingway. The writers considered themselves “lost” because their inherited values could not operate in the postwar world and they felt spiritually alienated from a country they considered hopelessly provincial and emotionally barren. The term embraces Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane, among others.


Lost Generation
intellectuals and aesthetes, rootless and disillusioned, who came to maturity during World War I. [Am. Lit.: Benét, 600]


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There is a lost generation of architects nobody speaks much about," Shatken said.
Selig missed a great opportunity to prove he is serious about reconnecting with a lost generation of African-American fans and creating a community sense of ownership for the future.
He grew up on the cusp of the lost generation, coming out before the epidemic and watching his idols, just a few years older, die of complications from AIDS.
 
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