Lost Generation facts for kids

The "Lost Generation" is a term used to describe a number of American writers and artists who went to live in Europe after the First World War. People associated with the Lost Generation include Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson and John Steinbeck.

The term has also been used more recently to describe those unable to find work after the global financial crisis of 2008-2009.

Origin of the term

The writer and poet Gertrude Stein is often considered to have come up with the term She supposedly heard her French garage owner speak of his unskilled young workers as "une generation perdue" (a generation lost). Ernest Hemingway then used the term in the introduction to his novel The Sun Also Rises.

The term is generally used for the period from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Great Depression.

Images for kids

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  Family in Queensland pictured at home (circa 1900)

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  Class photo taken at a school in Sweden (1900)

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  French Soldiers on a battlefield during the First World War

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  A young woman burning a cable for scrap at a shipbuilding yard in Glasgow during World War I.

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  Image taken from a magazine cover (published 1924) of a couple dressed in fashionable clothing of the period.

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  Weapons training for members of the Volkssturm, a militia all German men not already in military service up to the age of sixty were obliged to join in the final months of World War II.

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  Gertrude Stein with Ernest Hemingway's son Jack in 1924. Stein is credited with bringing the term "Lost Generation" into use.

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  Typewriters entered common use as a writing tool for the Lost Generation

See also

In Spanish: Generación perdida para niños