Shakespeare and Company was the home away from home of those expats. Ever since then, it’s been used to describe the Americans who expatriated to Europe, particularly Paris, in the years after the horrors of the so-called Great War.
Q: Who were the members of the Lost Generation, and why was the bookstore important to them?Ī: The label “Lost Generation” was made famous in the epigraph to Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises,” though his once mentor Gertrude Stein originally coined the term.
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