a. Lost Generation
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American writer, famous for her literary and artistic judgments, and her home in Paris that was a salon for the leading artists and writers of the period between WW I and II. Many of those who attended her home were middle-age American writers, mostly expatriated, whose values were no longer relevant in the postwar era. Many of them found themselves disoriented and deeply disillusioned by World War I and its outcome. And Stein started to call them "Lost Generation".