William Faulkner
He was a writer. In 1926 he wrote a bitter war novel called "Soldier's Pay". He also wrote many other powerful books about the lives of Southerners during the Civil War.
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Chapter 34 - American Life in the "Roaring Twenties"
Main Street
" in 1920. Then he wrote "Babbit" which describe a materialistic middle-class American businessman.
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Sinclair Lewis
Lewis was the chief chronicler of Midwestern life. He was a master of satire and wrote "
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway fought in Italy in 1917. He later became a famous author who wrote "The Sun Also Rises" (about American expatriates in Europe) and "A Farewell to Arms." In the 1920's he became upset with the idealism of America versus the realism he saw in World War I. He was very distraught, and in 1961 he shot himself in the head.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
He belonged to the Lost Generation of Writers. He wrote the famous novel "The Great Gatsby" which explored the glamour and cruelty of an achievement-oriented society.
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H. L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken was a patron to many young writers in the 1920's. He criticized many subjects like the middle class, democracy, marriage and patriotism in his monthly AMERICAN MERCURY.
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Sigmund Freud
The Viennese physician that believed sexual repression was responsible for a variety of nervous and emotional diseases. He argued that health demanded sexual gratification and liberation. His writings seemed to justify the new sexual frankness of the 1920s.
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Margaret Sanger
She led an organized birth control movement that openly championed the use of contraceptives.
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Margaret Sanger
she organized a birth-control movement which openly championed the use of contraceptives in the 1920's.
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Frederick W. Taylor
Taylor was an engineer, an inventor, and a tennis player. He sought to eliminate wasted motion. Famous for scientific-management especially time-management studies.
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