Lost Generation

:The Lost Generation also refers to the ex-Red Guards in China. See Red Guards (China).

Celebrities

Sample members of the Lost Generation include the following:

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• 1883 Elsa Maxwell (died 1963)
• 1884 Damon Runyon (died 1946)
• 1885 Sinclair Lewis (died 1951)
• 1885 George Patton (died 1945)
• 1886 Al Jolson (immigrant; died 1950)
• 1887 Fatty Arbuckle (died 1933)
• 1888 Irving Berlin (immigrant; died 1989)
• 1889 Walter Lippmann (died 1974)
• 1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower (died 1969)
• 1891 Earl Warren (died 1974)
• 1891 Nicola Sacco (immigrant; died 1927)
• 1892 Reinhold Niebuhr (died 1971)
• 1892 Mae West (died 1980)
• 1893 Dorothy Parker (died 1967)
• 1894 Norman Rockwell (died 1978)
• 1895 J. Edgar Hoover (died 1972)
• 1895 Babe Ruth (died 1948)
• 1896 George Burns (died 1996)
• 1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald (died 1940)
• 1897 Hal Haig Prieste (immigrant; died 2001)
• 1898 Paul Robeson (died 1976)
• 1899 Vladimir Nabokov (immigrant; died 1977)
• 1899 Humphrey Bogart (died 1957)
• 1899 Al Capone (immigrant and famous mob boss; died 1947)
• 1899 Jimmie Davis (died 2000)
• 1899 Ernest Hemingway (died 1961)
• 1899 Alfred Hitchcock (immigrant; died 1980)
• 1900 Aaron Copland (died 1990)
• 1900 Adlai Stevenson (died 1965)
• 1900 Cecil H. Green (immigrant; died 2003)

Cultural endowments of the Lost Generation include the following:

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• The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
• The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
• Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis)
• The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
• Monkey Business (film, The Marx Brothers)
• Creed of an Advertising Man (Bruce Barton)
• An American in Paris (George Gershwin)
• Ain't Misbehavin' (Duke Ellington)
• The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett; later a movie)
• The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
• The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
• The View from Eighty (Malcolm Cowley)

The Lost Generation produced two Presidents: Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. They held a plurality in the House of Representatives from 1937 to 1953, a plurality in the Senate from 1943 to 1959, and a majority of the Supreme Court from 1941 to 1967.

Related Topics:
Harry S. Truman - Dwight Eisenhower - 1937 - 1953 - 1943 - 1959 - 1941 - 1967

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Prominent non-U.S. peers of the Lost Generation included Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Vidkun Quisling, Charles Chaplin, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles de Gaulle, Robert Graves, Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Ho Chi Minh, Sergei Prokofiev, and Mao Zedong.

Related Topics:
Benito Mussolini - Adolf Hitler - Vidkun Quisling - Charles Chaplin - J. R. R. Tolkien - Charles de Gaulle - Robert Graves - Franz Kafka - Aldous Huxley - Ho Chi Minh - Sergei Prokofiev - Mao Zedong

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