![]() ![]() He traveled around Europe writing pieces for the Toronto Star, using his immense powers of observation to record life for the newspaper. Hemingway did plenty of drinking (for the rest of his life, he bore a scar on his forehead from a drunken collision with a Paris skylight) but was also a disciplined writer. Some expatriates in Paris at the time drank their days away in the cafes. It was a cohort of young people whom Gertrude Stein nicknamed the Lost Generation-those who caught only the tail end of the excitement and drama of World War I and then faced the great letdown of the war's aftermath. Among the authors and artists who established themselves there in the years after World War I were Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, F. ![]() Anderson was correct that all the good writers were in Paris. ![]()
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