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Date 1920 - 1936
Areas Of Involvement American literature
Related People Ernest Hemingway • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Hart Crane • John Dos Passos • Sherwood Anderson • E.E. Cummings • Archibald MacLeish • John Peale Bishop

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