The Big Boring Book Blog

What it was About

• Began late 1800s and ended around 1965

• Authors and poets began to break from tradition and individualize themselves.

• They also mostly wrote to question authority, and focus finding themselves.

• The general views of the modernist area was once seen as impersonal, capitalist and antagonistic.

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Gertrude Stein

• February 3, 1874- July 27,1947

• She was the one to make the movement sky-rocket. She called them the lost generation.

• She was a novelist, a poet and a pioneer to the Modernist movement.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

• September 24, 1896-December 21, 1940

• Considered member of the “Lost Generation”

• Wrote The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, and an unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, and a number of short stories that he sold to

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Ernest Hemingway

• July 21, 1899-July 2, 1 961

• Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer and a journalist. His literary  works were mostly based off of his life of adventure and his personal public image.

• Alleged to be close friends with F. Scott Fitzgerald.

• Wrote Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea,

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Virginia Woolf

• January 25, 1882-March 28, 1941

• Wrote Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse Orlando, A Room of One’s Own

• “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”