It describes both Amory Blaine, protagonist of the novel This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald; and Jake Barnes, hero of the novel The Son Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway.  
It describes both Amory Blaine, protagonist of the novel This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald; and Jake Barnes, hero of the novel The Son Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway.  A mechanic working on Gertrude Stein's car inspired a hotel proprietor to coin the phrase.  For 10 points, what term describes young people who came of age between World War One and the Great Depression?
It describes both Amory Blaine, protagonist of the novel This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald; and Jake Barnes, hero of the novel The Son Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway.  
Lost Generation