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Lost Generation

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The lost generation refers to the young people coming of age in the United States shortly after World War I, and specifically to a group of literary notables who were beginning their careers in the 1920's. Significant members included Ernest Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein.