Episode Detail: The Lost Generation - Biography
American expatriate writers living in Paris in the 1920s are profiled, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Archibald MacLeish, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and John Dos Passos. They were part of a group dubbed the Lost Generation, which, says narrator Harry Smith, would “eventually produce the greatest concentration of art and literature in the 20th century.” Included: archival film footage and stills; and comments by historians, writers, friends and relatives.