Background information:Generations prior to Baby boomers The Lost generation:(1919-1931) used for the generation of young people who came of age during and shortly after World War l,alternatively known as the World War I generation. The term was popularized by Hemingway who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel,The Sun Also Rises.In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein,who was then his mentor and patron. Seeking the bohemian lifestyle and rejecting the values of American materialism,a number of intellectuals,poets, artists and writers fled to France in the post World War I years.Paris was the center of it all.Background information: Generations prior to Baby Boomers • The Lost generation: (1919 – 1931) used for the generation of young people who came of age during and shortly after World War I, alternatively known as the World War I generation. The term was popularized by Hemingway who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises. In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron. Seeking the bohemian lifestyle and rejecting the values of American materialism, a number of intellectuals, poets, artists and writers fled to France in the post World War I years. Paris was the center of it all