Who is the greatest writer of the Lost Generation?
Paris in the twenties held more talent per cafe table than most countries manage in a century. The famous names are here, and so are the ones their friends rated higher.
1F. Scott FitzgeraldChronicler of the Jazz Age whose The Great Gatsby became the era's defining American novel.1000pts
2Ernest HemingwayNovelist whose stripped-down sentences in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms reset American prose.763pts
3William FaulknerMississippi modernist whose Yoknapatawpha novels broke narrative time into competing voices.624pts
4Erich Maria RemarqueGerman veteran whose All Quiet on the Western Front voiced the same lost generation from the other trench.624pts
5Djuna BarnesExpatriate novelist whose Nightwood turned the Paris demimonde into dense, hallucinatory prose.560pts
6Kay BoyleShort-story writer and novelist of the Paris years, twice an O. Henry Prize winner.560pts
7Ezra PoundPoet and relentless editor who shaped Imagism and pushed Eliot, Joyce, and Hemingway into print.485pts
8Zelda FitzgeraldWriter and painter whose novel Save Me the Waltz retold the marriage her husband was also mining.485pts
9Ford Madox FordNovelist of Parade's End and editor of the transatlantic review, the magazine that printed the expatriates.397pts
10Sherwood AndersonAuthor of Winesburg, Ohio and the older mentor who opened doors for both Hemingway and Faulkner.397pts
11Hart CranePoet of The Bridge, whose ecstatic American epic ended with his suicide at thirty-two.291pts
12John Dos PassosAuthor of the U.S.A. trilogy, who spliced newsreels and camera-eye montage into the American novel.291pts
13E. E. CummingsPoet and ambulance-corps veteran whose typography and lowercase lines made verse look new.291pts
14Gertrude SteinParis salon host and experimental writer who coined the phrase 'lost generation' and mentored half of it.291pts
15T. S. EliotPoet of The Waste Land, the 1922 poem that gave post-war disillusion its permanent soundtrack.162pts
16Thomas WolfeAuthor of Look Homeward, Angel, whose torrential autobiographical novels needed editors to contain them.162pts
17Archibald MacLeishParis expatriate poet who later won three Pulitzers and ran the Library of Congress.162pts
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