The Saved Generation
The Saved Generation
by Ben House
In the early 1920s, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were dubbed "the lost generation". During these years, they lived for a time in France, formed a friendship, nurtured each other’s literary careers, and traveled about Europe. Across the channel from Hemingway and Fitzgerald, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were beginning their careers as teachers and scholars at Oxford University. In time their famed literary friendship began around an informal group called the “Koalbiters” where they gathered to read Old Norse myths in the original languages. (Cont.)
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