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Langston Hughes

American poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, the only child of James Nathanial Hughes and Carry Langston. His maternal grandmother, Mary

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What poet coined the phrase "The Lost Generation," referring to the generation of expatriate American writers who wrote in the years between the First World War and the Depression?

Answer

Gertrude Stein. Ernest Hemingway attributes the phrase to her in his memoir A Moveable Feast. He used it in an epigraph to THE SUN ALSO RISES (1926)

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