1980-1989

This page contains a timeline of major events related to the Lost Generation between 1980-1989, with U.S. and world events to provide context.

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• 1980

  June 7 – Henry Miller dies in Pacific Palisades, California

  August 2 – Donald Ogden Stewart dies in London, England

  December 13 – Ginevra King dies in Charleston, South Carolina

• 1981

  January 20 – Ronald Reagan sworn in as 40th U.S. President; Iranians free hostages from the American Embassy

  May 11 – John Allan Wyeth dies in Skillman, New Jersey

• 1982

  April 20 – Archibald MacLeish dies in Boston, Massachusetts

  June 18 – Djuna Barnes dies in New York City, New York

• 1985

  January 21 – Ronald Reagan sworn in for a second term

• 1986

  May 1 – Ernest Hemingway’s last unfinished novel, The Garden of Eden, is published

• 1987

  February 22 – Glenway Wescott dies in Rosemont, New Jersey

• 1989

  January 20 – George Bush sworn in as 41st U.S. President

  March 27 – Malcolm Cowley dies in New Milford, Connecticut

  May 24 – Virgil Geddes dies in Chelsea, Maine

See also: 1870s-80s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s