Ernest Hemingway was the most widely known American author of his generation, and perhaps of all time. Although an expatriate, through his life and works he touched upon the feelings and needs of countless Americans that were lost in history. These people were and are no less American, just Americans that were changed and scarred by the events that they underwent. Evidence of Hemingway's brilliance and American ... force in American society. Hemingway's first book, "The Sun Also Rises," was a masterpiece that elaborately depicted Hemingway's "Lost Generation" through fiction. This book set th...

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... 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 ... by writer Gertrude Stein in her preface to Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) to characterize Hemingway and his circle of ...

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