History Brief: Other 1920s Authors

This video gives a brief description of some of the most popular American authors during the 1920s. It covers the achievements of Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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[rlathbury]

"Gideon Planish" by Sinclair Lewis is not a product of the 1920's. It was published in 1942. The book the program should have listed by Lewis was "Arrowsmith."

[amrlynch]

I just finished Lewis's Babbitt yesterday! I feel like it showed the opulence of 20's America better than Gatsby, if only because it showed it through the lens of the "regular guy", the middle class that we see around us every day, rather than Fitzgerald's mega-rich characters.