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MacLeish, Archibald
(1892-1982) American writer. Archibald MacLeish was a prolific Pulitzer prize-winning poet, professor, and political activist. His first volume of poetry, "Tower of Ivory," appeared late in 1917.
Archibald Macleish
"Archibald MacLeish was not only an accomplished poet and playwright, but a statesman as well. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, MacLeish left legal practice to travel to Paris in the 1920's. Toward the end of the decade, he returned to the United States, imbued with the fervor of social commitment which ultimately led him to join Franklin Roosevelt's administration."
Lost Generation
The "Lost Generation" of American writers included: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ford Maddox Ford and Zelda Fitzgerald. The term was first used by Gertrude Stein who told Hemingway, "you are all a lost generation."