Celebrating Hemingway’s ‘The Sun Also Rises’

Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley arrived in Paris just before Christmas 1921, according to literary critic Malcolm Cowley. Part of a group known as the Lost Generation, the couple moved to the city following the heavy casualties of World War I.

Cowley described the young Hemingway as a major figure in the Parisian literary scene, noting that the author possessed a sense of belonging in the city. This period of artistic and literary freedom in Paris drew many Americans seeking to develop their creative voices.