SOURCE: "The (Hi)story of Their Lives: Mythic Autobiography and 'The Lost Generation'," in Journal of American Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, April, 1993, pp. 35-56.
In the following essay, Dolan discusses the influence of autobiographical writings—particularly Malcolm Cowley's Exile's Return (1934), Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast (1964), and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up (1945)—in establishing popular views of American expatriate writers in Paris during the 1920s.
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