Paris 1920's Honors Timeline

1919- Sherwood Anderson published his most well known book to this day called, Winesburg, Ohio and he was influenced by other well known 1920’s writers such as Earnest Hemmingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and more.

1920- John Dos Pasos (who was considered to be part of the Lost Generation)

published his first book which was titled, One Man's Initiation: 1917. Although he was technically American and lived in the United States, he traveled to Europe often during the twenties.

Early 1920’s- Ford Madox Ford was a novelist, poet, critic and editor whose magazine articles, The English Review (a 1920’s magazine published in London) and The Transatlantic Review (a magazine based in Paris that would later also feature other members of the “Lost Generation” including Earnest Hemingway himself), was a main part of “the development of early 20th-century English literature”.

1925- F. Scott Fitzgerald published his arguably best novel, The Great Gatsby. He was close friends with Earnest Hemming way and made several trips to Paris during the 1920’s. He was considered to be part of the “Lost Generation” which was a group of famous authors who made their fame in Paris in the 1920’s.

1926- Ernest Hemingway wrote his first serious novel that came out while he was still in Paris. It was titled, The Sun Also Rises and it was the what thrust him into the literary spotlight. It became one of the most important books of the decade and it gave us an important view and understanding of the Lost Generation because Earnest Hemmingway was considered to be one of the main authors who were a part of it.

1929- F Scott Fitzgerald was working on his fourth novel, but had to stop because his financial issues and because his wife, Zelda had just developed schizophrenia in 1930.

1933- Gertrude stein published her novel, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas which not only was the piece of writing that made her famous, but it was written about her lesbian lover which at the time, was a very common trait to have in Paris because of France’s “Napoleonic Code” which didn’t propose that homosexual practices that were in private were a criminal act. In fact, for many woman artists during that century, being lesbian was, “a fundamental condition of artistic identity and professional achievement”.