Today we began to look at society in the aftermath of WWI. "The Lost Generation" referred to people in early adulthood during World War I. After WWI they were "lost" - described as "disoriented, wandering, directionless." In the 1920s, young people tended to be rebellious, cynical and daring. These included things such as jazz, music, fashion, flappers and bootlegging. We will be looking at many diverse aspects of this generation. In the 1920s, there was a group of American expatriate (former U.S. citizens) writers living in Paris. Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term, and it was subsequently popularized by Ernest Hemingway who used it in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises: "You are all a lost generation."