In the post WWI years of the United States, the artistic world witnessed a phenomenon where by America's "best and brightest" writers, musicians, and artists flocked to Europe in record numbers. "In one of his earliest dispatches from Paris in 1922, Ernest Hemingway declared: ‘The scum of Greenwich Village, New York, has been skimmed off and deposited in large ladlesful on that section of Paris adjacent to the Café Rotonde'" ("Expatriates (1920s)").
In Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, he credits Gertrude Stein with coining the term "The Lost Generation" by way of an epigraph to the novel ("Lost Generation"). While Stein was also an accomplished writer worthy of literary criticism, her Paris Salons and the influence she had on the writers of the time period prove far more interesting. "The assemblage of the era's most avant-garde writers, artists, and musicians, and their sharing of theory and practice, was an important force in the formation of modernism" ("Stein Holds Her First......

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Title: What Is The Lost Generation
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