ution prohibited the manufacture and sale of liquor. This marked a turning point in America’s history. Many people resented this new law and drank in illegal clubs called speak-easies. Gangsters took over bootlegging and crime increased. The federal government found it almost impossible to enforce prohibition, mainly because society had such a strong opposition towards it. The Jazz Age was a golden period in American literature, distinguished by the works of such writers as Willa Cather, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, and Carl Sandburg. At the same time, American writers began to influence world literature. A period of disillusion and cynicism that followed WWI found expression in the writings of a group of Americans living in Paris who became known as the Lost Generation. These famous writers shared bitterness about the war and dissatisfaction with American society. Some of the most influential writers of this period include novelist Thornton Wilder, poet Archibald Macleish, and Hart Crane. The term lost generation was first used by writer Gertrude Stein in her preface to Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises

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