The lost generation

Betty Field, center, and Alan Ladd, right, in the 1949 film version of The Great Gatsby.

This is a guest post from Philip Greene. He is one of the founders of the Museum of the American Cocktail (New Orleans), and is the author of the newly

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Hemingway in Italy, 1918

The status of affairs in America in the years following the First World War spawned a generation of authors termed “the lost generation.” In response to the political and social atmosphere of the United States these authors sought cultural...

Brief biography of Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946), American-born author, poet, and art collector with a singular, delightfully absurd voice.

Virginia Woolf was the hub of a group of artists and writers known as the Bloomsbury Group, which was formed at the beginning of the 20th Century.

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson was the first wife of Ernest Hemingway. Falling in love with Hemingway, she said, was a “great explosion into life.”