id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4399 Lost Generation - Wikipedia .html text/html 1933 314 73 "Lost" in this context refers to the "disoriented, wandering, directionless" spirit of many of the war's survivors in the early postwar period.[1] The term is also particularly used to refer to a group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s.[2][3][4] Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term, and it was subsequently popularized by Ernest Hemingway who used it in the epigraph for his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises: "You are all a lost generation".[5][6] The writings of the Lost Generation literary figures often pertained to the writers' experiences in World War I and the years following it. "Britain's 'Lost Generation' of the First World War" (PDF). Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. "Britain's 'Lost Generation' of the First World War." Population Studies 31.3 (1977): 449–466. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4399.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4399.txt