The newly wed Hemingways moved to Paris in late 1921 armed with letters of introduction to the Parisian literary scene written by Anderson. Thanks to these letters, Hemingway met James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound, all of whom would greatly influence the fledgling author. Shortly thereafter Hemingway embarked on a vigorous literary career. He published short stories and poetry, including Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) and In Our Time (1925) as well as the satire The Torrents of Spring (1926) before releasing his first successful novel, The Sun Also Rises. Titled Fiesta in England when it first appeared, the novel captures the responses of expatriate characters to conditions in the period between two world wars.
Prohibition. The Eighteenth Amendment, one of the most controversial in United States history, took effect on January 17, 1920. Designed to frustrate the consumption of alcoholic beverages and eliminate the vice with which it was associated, this amendment forbid the manufacture, sale, and distribution of “intoxicating alcohol” in America (legally defined as any beverage with an alcoholic content greater than 0.5 percent, excluding sacramental or medicinal uses).
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