... came of age during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s; are called the "Lost Generation Writers". 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 average and emotionally lacking. The term embraces Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings ... his novella, The Old Man and the Sea 1952, which won him a Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded the ...

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