Top Ten books about the Lost Generation

Bad Boy of Music, by George Antheil: the notorious, hilarious autobiography. Published 1945, Second Edition in 1990 (Samuel French).

Anderson, Margaret: My Thirty Years' War ; New York: Horizon Press, 1969. describes many artists: Pound, Cocteau, Duchamp, Jane Heap, Stein, Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Picasso, Antheil, etc.

Hemingway: A Moveable Feast. The classic Parisian narrative.

The Life and Music of George Antheil, 1900-1959, Linda Whitesitt, 1981. Dissertation at University of Maryland, published by UMI Research Press.

Four Lives in Paris, Hugh Ford. North Point Press, San Francisco, 1987. This is out of print, but well worth finding if you can...covers Antheil's life before and during Paris with humor and insight.

Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation, Noel Riley Fitch. W. W. Norton, 1983. A wonderful portrait.

Pyramids at the Louvre, Glenn Watkins. An interesting book on postmodernism, with many references to Antheil and cubist Paris.

Shakespeare & Company, Sylvia Beach (in print)

Americans in Paris, George Wickes (out of print but available)

Confessions of Another Young Man, Bravig Imbs (out of print and hard to find -- check large university libraries!)

And here's a neat link to a list of Lost Generation Books...


Special thanks to Paul Lehrman!