1920-1929

This page contains a timeline of major events related to the Lost Generation between 1920-1929, with U.S. and world events to provide context.

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• 1920

  January 17 – 18th Amendment goes into effect, starting Prohibition

  March 26 – This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, is published

  April 3 – F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre marry

  August – Flappers and Philosophers, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first story collection, is published

• 1921

  March 4 – Warren G. Harding sworn in as the 29th U.S. President

  October 26 – F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s only child, Scottie, is born

  November – Aldous Huxley’s first novel, Crome Yellow, is published

• 1922

  February 2 –Ulysses published in its entirety for the first time by Sylvia Beach on James Joyce’s 40th birthday

  April – The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, is published

  September – Tales of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second story collection, is published

• 1923

  August 2 – President Harding dies of a heart attack

  August 3 – Calvin Coolidge sworn in as the 30th U.S. President

  November – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s play The Vegetable is a failure

• 1925

  John Dos Passos‘s fourth novel, Manhattan Transfer, is published

  March 4 – President Coolidge sworn in for a second term

  April 10 – The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel, is published

  May – Fitzgerald and Hemingway meet

• 1926

  February – All the Sad Young Men, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third story collection, is published

  February 25 – Soldiers’ Pay, William Faulkner’s first novel, is published

• 1927

  April 30 – Mosquitoes, William Faulkner’s second novel, is published

• 1929

  January 31 – Sartoris, William Faulkner’s third novel, is published

  March 4 – Herbert Hoover sworn in as the 31st U.S. President

  October 7 – The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner’s fourth novel, is published

  October 29 – “Black Tuesday,” New York stock market crash signals the beginning of the Great Depression

See also: 1870s-80s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s