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Malcolm Cowley, the Glossary

Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic.^[1]

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American Field Service personnel of World War I
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AFS Intercultural Programs

AFS Intercultural Programs (or AFS, originally the American Field Service) is an international youth exchange organization.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.

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Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. Malcolm Cowley and Archibald MacLeish are Lost Generation writers, national Book Award winners and people of the United States Office of War Information.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Belsano, Pennsylvania

Belsano is an unincorporated community in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Carl Sandburg

Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. Malcolm Cowley and Carl Sandburg are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Carl Van Doren

Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10, 1885 – July 18, 1950) was an American critic and biographer.

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Carl Van Vechten

Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.

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Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.

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Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all human beings are members of a single community.

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Dada

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916), founded by Hugo Ball with his companion Emmy Hennings, and in Berlin in 1917.

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Malcolm Cowley and Dashiell Hammett are Lost Generation writers.

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Donald Ogden Stewart

Donald Ogden Stewart (November 30, 1894 – August 2, 1980) was an American writer and screenwriter best known for his sophisticated golden age comedies and melodramas such as The Philadelphia Story (based on the play by Philip Barry), Tarnished Lady and Love Affair.

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E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. Malcolm Cowley and e. E. Cummings are American Field Service personnel of World War I, Harvard Advocate alumni, Lost Generation writers and members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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East Liberty (Pittsburgh)

East Liberty is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's East End.

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Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary critic and journalist. Malcolm Cowley and Edmund Wilson are Lost Generation writers.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Malcolm Cowley and Ernest Hemingway are Lost Generation writers.

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Erskine Caldwell

Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American novelist and short story writer. Malcolm Cowley and Erskine Caldwell are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Expatriate

An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their country of citizenship.

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. Malcolm Cowley and Ezra Pound are Lost Generation writers and members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Malcolm Cowley and F. Scott Fitzgerald are Lost Generation writers.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Fellow traveller

A fellow traveller (also fellow traveler) is a person who is intellectually sympathetic to the ideology of a political organization, and who co-operates in the organization's politics, without being a formal member.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Malcolm Cowley and Gertrude Stein are Lost Generation writers, novelists from Pennsylvania and writers from Pittsburgh.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Homeopathy

Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.

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Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism is an ideology centered on the value of human life, whereby humans practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans to reduce suffering and improve the conditions of humanity for moral, altruistic, and emotional reasons.

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Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a graduate-level creative writing program.

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J. Edgar Hoover

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Jack Kerouac

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

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John Dos Passos

John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his ''U.S.A.'' trilogy. Malcolm Cowley and John Dos Passos are American Field Service personnel of World War I, Lost Generation writers and members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Ken Kesey

Ken Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure.

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Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. Malcolm Cowley and Kenneth Burke are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and writers from Pittsburgh.

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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. Malcolm Cowley and Langston Hughes are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Larry McMurtry

Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. Malcolm Cowley and Larry McMurtry are Stegner Fellows.

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League of American Writers

The League of American Writers was an association of American novelists, playwrights, poets, journalists, and literary critics launched by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in 1935.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Liberalism in the United States

Liberalism in the United States is based on concepts of unalienable rights of the individual.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist views and political activism. Malcolm Cowley and Lillian Hellman are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and national Book Award winners.

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List of ambulance drivers during World War I

This is a list of notable people who served as ambulance drivers during the First World War.

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Literary criticism

A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Lost Generation

The Lost Generation is the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation.

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Louise Bogan

Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet. Malcolm Cowley and Louise Bogan are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Mark McGurl

Mark McGurl is an American literary critic specializing in 20th-century American literature.

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Martin Dies Jr.

Martin Dies Jr. (November 5, 1900 – November 14, 1972), also known as Martin Dies Sr., was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Mary Heaton Vorse

Mary Heaton Vorse (October 11, 1874 – June 14, 1966) was an American journalist and novelist.

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Maurice Barrès

Auguste-Maurice Barrès (19 August 1862 – 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist, philosopher, and politician.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established with the goal "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America." Established in 1989 by National Book Awards, Inc.,Edwin McDowell.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.

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New Milford, Connecticut

New Milford is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Newberry Library

The Newberry Library is an independent research library, specializing in the humanities.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).

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On the Road

On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Peabody High School (Pennsylvania)

Peabody High School was a public school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the neighborhood of East Liberty.

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Peggy Cowley

Marguerite Frances Cowley (née Baird; 1890 – September 23, 1970), known as Peggy Cowley and also as Peggy Baird and by her first married name Peggy Johns, was an American landscape painter.

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Peter S. Beagle

Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially of fantasy fiction.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Popular front

A popular front is "any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties", including liberal and social democratic ones, "united for the defense of democratic forms" against "a presumed Fascist assault".

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Robert Cowley

Robert Cowley is an American military historian, who writes on topics in American and European military history ranging from the Civil War through World War II.

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Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. Malcolm Cowley and Robert Penn Warren are national Book Award winners.

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Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Malcolm Cowley and Sherwood Anderson are Lost Generation writers and members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.

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Stegner Fellowship

The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University.

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Swann Galleries

Swann Galleries is a New York City auction house founded in 1941.

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Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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The Harvard Advocate

The Harvard Advocate, the art and literary magazine of Harvard College, is the oldest continuously published college art and literary magazine in the United States.

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The New Republic

The New Republic is an American publisher focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts, with ten magazines a year and a daily online platform.

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story)

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway first published in August 1936, in Esquire magazine.

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Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano is a novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) published in 1947.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Office of War Information

The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II.

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Upton Sinclair

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. Malcolm Cowley and Upton Sinclair are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Van Wyck Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks (February 16, 1886 – May 2, 1963) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian. Malcolm Cowley and Van Wyck Brooks are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and national Book Award winners.

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Viking Press

Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House.

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Waldo Frank

Waldo David Frank (August 25, 1889 – January 9, 1967) was an American novelist, historian, political activist, and literary critic, who wrote extensively for The New Yorker and The New Republic during the 1920s and 1930s. Malcolm Cowley and Waldo Frank are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Wendell Berry

Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Malcolm Cowley and Wendell Berry are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Stegner Fellows.

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Westbrook Pegler

Francis James Westbrook Pegler (August 2, 1894 – June 24, 1969) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. journalist described as "one of the godfathers of right-wing populism".

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Whittaker Chambers

Whittaker Chambers (born Jay Vivian Chambers; April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer and intelligence agent.

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William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. Malcolm Cowley and William Faulkner are Lost Generation writers, members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and national Book Award winners.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Cowley

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American Field Service personnel of World War I

Lost Generation writers

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette people

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