Significant events like the Great Depression, Popular culture, such as more rights for women allowing them to play more of a role. Famous people coming in like Babe Ruth and Coco Chanel, all shaping to be this modernism era we call “The Roaring Twenties”. The 1920’s into the 1930’s was an era of change, evolution, and new beginnings, bringing a new view to the eye of the American citizen pop culture, authors and historical events changed everything. During the 1920’s significant events were shaping the lives of American citizens. The first thing that happened was on August 18th, 1920 the women’s suffrage act was ratified. Allowing women the right to have a role in the decisions this country makes, to have an opinion, to vote! (“Roaring Twenties”)
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For example, F. Scott Fitzgerald who was an american short story writer and a novelist. He owes most of his fame to his novel The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota, following his big success with his first story he got married. With continuous alcohol use and his wife having a mental breakdown Fitzgerald decided to move to Hollywood and became a scriptwriter. “Beginning in 1920 and continuing throughout the rest of his career, Fitzgerald supported himself financially by writing great numbers of short stories for popular publications such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Some of his most notable stories include ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,’ ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,’ ‘The Camel's Back’ and ‘The Last of the Belles.’” (“F. Scott Fitzgerald”) Another well known author would be Edith Wharton, born in 1862 to a distinguished New York family and became a novelist. In 1885 Edith married Edward Wharton who was also very wealthy, after marriage she began to write about the changes of the New York society and for her novel The Age of Innocence she won the Pulitzer Prize. (“Edith Wharton”) “A well known poet would be Willa Cather, born in 1873 was a writer of poetry and novels known for such works as O Pioneers! and My Antonia.” (“Willa Cather”) She found her themes through a young age the spirit and courage of the frontier, the same frontier she experienced throughout her
For example, F. Scott Fitzgerald who was an american short story writer and a novelist. He owes most of his fame to his novel The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota, following his big success with his first story he got married. With continuous alcohol use and his wife having a mental breakdown Fitzgerald decided to move to Hollywood and became a scriptwriter. “Beginning in 1920 and continuing throughout the rest of his career, Fitzgerald supported himself financially by writing great numbers of short stories for popular publications such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Some of his most notable stories include ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,’ ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,’ ‘The Camel's Back’ and ‘The Last of the Belles.’” (“F. Scott Fitzgerald”) Another well known author would be Edith Wharton, born in 1862 to a distinguished New York family and became a novelist. In 1885 Edith married Edward Wharton who was also very wealthy, after marriage she began to write about the changes of the New York society and for her novel The Age of Innocence she won the Pulitzer Prize. (“Edith Wharton”) “A well known poet would be Willa Cather, born in 1873 was a writer of poetry and novels known for such works as O Pioneers! and My Antonia.” (“Willa Cather”) She found her themes through a young age the spirit and courage of the frontier, the same frontier she experienced throughout her