People

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Eventually our goal is to have all writers and major personalities of the Lost Generation listed here, with links to full profiles of each. Let’s begin with the big names.

Writers

Name	Birth	Death	Major Works
Sherwood Anderson	1876	1941	Winesburg, Ohio
Djuna Barnes	1892	1982	Ladies Almanack, Nightwood
John Peale Bishop	1892	1944	“The Hours”
James Boyd	1888	1944	Drums
Thomas Boyd	1898	1935	Through the Wheat
Kay Boyle	1902	1992	Being Geniuses Together, Process
Louis Bromfield	1896	1956	Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady, The Rains Came
Rupert Brooke	1887	1915	“The Soldier”
Van Wyck Brooks	1886	1963	“Finders and Makers” series
William Slater Brown	1896	1997	The Burning Wheel, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
Kenneth Burke	1897	1993	A Grammar of Motives, A Rhetoric of Motives
Morley Callaghan	1903	1990	Strange Fugitive, That Summer in Paris
Louis-Ferdinand Céline	1894	1961	Journey to the End of the Night
Robert Coates	1897	1973	The Eater of Darkness, The Outlaw Years
Malcolm Cowley	1898	1989	Blue Juniata, Exile’s Return
Hart Crane	1899	1932	The Bridge
E. E. Cummings	1894	1962	The Enormous Room, Tulips and Chimneys
John Dos Passos	1896	1970	Manhattan Transfer, U.S.A trilogy
T. S. Eliot	1888	1965	“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Waste Land”
William Faulkner	1897	1962	The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying
Edna Ferber	1885	1968	Show Boat, So Big
F. Scott Fitzgerald	1896	1940	The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night
Zelda Fitzgerald	1900	1948	Save Me the Waltz
Janet Flanner	1892	1978	An American in Paris: Profile of an Interlude Between Two Wars
Ford Madox Ford	1873	1939	The Good Soldier, Parade’s End
Virgil Geddes	1897	1989	The Earth Between, Native Ground
Ramon Guthrie	1896	1973	Maximum Security Ward
Dashiell Hammett	1894	1961	The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man
Ernest Hemingway	1899	1961	The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Josephine Herbst	1892	1969	Pity Is Not Enough
Aldous Huxley	1894	1963	Brave New World, Island, The Doors of Perception
Eugene Jolas	1894	1952	transition
Matthew Josephson	1899	1978	The Robber Barons, Life Among the Surrealists
James Joyce	1882	1941	Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
Ring Lardner	1885	1933	You Know Me Al
Sinclair Lewis	1885	1951	Main Street, Babbitt
Archibald MacLeish	1892	1982	Elpenor, Panic, The Fall of the City
H.L. Mencken	1880	1956	The American Language, Prejudices
Edna St. Vincent Millay	1892	1950	“Renascense,” “First Fig,” “Dirge without Music”
Henry Miller	1891	1980	Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring
George Orwell	1903	1950	Animal Farm, 1984
Wilfred Owen	1893	1918	“Dulce et Decorum est,” “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
Dorothy Parker	1893	1967	A Star Is Born, Big Blonde
Ezra Pound	1885	1972	Ripostes, “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” “The Cantos”
Erich Maria Remarque	1898	1970	All Quiet on the Western Front
Isaac Rosenberg	1890	1918	Poems from the Trenches
Alan Seeger	1888	1916	“I Have a Rendezvous with Death”
Gilbert Seldes	1893	1970	The Stammering Century
Olaf Stapledon	1886	1950	Star Maker, Last and First Men, Odd John
Gertrude Stein	1874	1946	The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
John Steinbeck	1902	1968	Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden
Harold Edmund Stearns	1891	1943	Confessions of a Harvard Man
Donald Ogden Stewart	1894	1980	Perfect Behavior, A Parody Outline of History
Edward Thomas	1878	1917	“The Sign-Post”
Carl Van Vechten	1880	1964	Peter Whiffle, Nigger Heaven
Glenway Wescott	1901	1987	The Pilgrim Hawk, Apartment in Athens
Thornton Wilder	1897	1975	The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town
Edmund Wilson	1895	1972	Axel’s Castle, To the Finland Station, Patriotic Gore
Thomas Wolfe	1900	1938	Look Homeward, Angel
Virginia Woolf	1882	1941	To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own
John Allan Wyeth	1894	1981	On To Paris

Other personalities

Name	Birth	Death	Major Role
Margaret Anderson	1886	1973	Founder/Editor/Publisher of The Little Review
Sylvia Beach	1887	1962	Owner of Shakespeare and Company
Ginevra King	1898	1980	Socialite, Inspiration for F. Scott Fitzgerald characters
Gerald Murphy	1888	1964	Wealthy American expatriate
Sara Murphy	1883	1975	Wealthy American expatriate
Maxwell Perkins	1884	1947	Literary editor at Scribners