<P> The writings of the Lost Generation literary figures tended to have common themes . These themes mostly pertained to the writers' experiences in World War I and the years following it . It is said that the work of these writers was autobiographical based on their use of mythologized versions of their lives . One of the themes that commonly appears in the authors' works is decadence and the frivolous lifestyle of the wealthy . Both Hemingway and Fitzgerald touched on this theme throughout the novels The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby . Another theme commonly found in the works of these authors was the death of the American dream, which is exhibited throughout many of their novels . It is particularly prominent in The Great Gatsby, in which the character Nick Carraway comes to realize the corruption that surrounds him . </P> <P> The term is also used in a broader context for the generation of young people who came of age during and shortly after World War I. Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, well known for their generational theory, define the Lost Generation as the cohort born from 1883 to 1900, who came of age during World War I and the Roaring Twenties . In Europe, they are mostly known as the "Generation of 1914", for the year World War I began . In France, the country in which many expatriates settled, they were sometimes called the Génération au Feu, the "Generation in Flames". In Britain, the term was originally used for those who died in the war, and often implicitly referred to upper - class casualties who were perceived to have died disproportionately, robbing the country of a future elite . Many felt that "the flower of youth and the best manhood of the peoples (had) been mowed down," for example such notable casualties as the poets Isaac Rosenberg, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen, composer George Butterworth and physicist Henry Moseley . </P> <P> Sample members include Sinclair Lewis, who was the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, United States Army General George S. Patton, Russian - born composer Irving Berlin, American writer, reporter, and political commentator Walter Lippmann, Earl Warren, American theologian, ethicist, and commentator on politics Reinhold Niebuhr, Actresses Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, and Mae West, American poet and satirist Dorothy Parker, Norman Rockwell a painter / illustrator, J. Edgar Hoover who was the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States, baseball player Babe Ruth whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons from 1914 through 1935, boxers Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney . Actors Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, George Burns, James Cagney, Buster Keaton, Frederic March, Edward G. Robinson, Randolph Scott, Spencer Tracy, and Rudolph Valentino, American novelist and short story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, American bass singer and actor who became involved with the civil rights movement Paul Robeson, Al Capone, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist Ernest Hemingway, entertainer Al Jolson, top Broadway star of the era and first star of "talking pictures", U.S. politicians Adlai Stevenson II and Henry A. Wallace, British - born film director Alfred Hitchcock, composers George Gershwin and Aaron Copland, and Italian born Nicola Sacco . </P> <P> Because the United States was a safe haven from the persecution, repression, and murder characteristic of fascist and Communist regimes, the United States often became a refuge for entrepreneurs, scientists (like Enrico Fermi), and creative people (like Bohuslav Martinů) who did much of their best work in America . </P>

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