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The Lost Generation It is a term applied to Group of U.S. disillusioned intellectuals and artists of the years following the WWI, who rebelled against former ideals and values, and established their reputations in the 1920s More broadly speaking, it may refer to the entire post-WWI American generation. The term was coined by Gertrude Stein in a remark to E. Hemingway ‘You are all a lost generation,’ and was used as a preface to the latter’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, which brilliantly describes an expatriate group typical of the ‘lost generation’, which is a term originally used by Fitzgeral