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| F. Scott Fitzgerald | writer who coined the phrase "Jazz Age", wrote The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise |
| George Gershwin | composer who merged traditional elements with American jazz |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | artist who produced intensely colored canvases of New York |
| Sinclair Lewis | first American writer to win Nobel Prize, wrote Babbitt which ridiculed American conformity and materialism |
| Edna M. Vincent Millay | wrote poems celebrating youth and life of independence from traditional constraint |
| Ernest Hemingway | best-known expatriate author, wrote The Sun Also Rises and A Farwell to Arms, criticizing the glorification of war |
| Claude McKay | novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant, poems expressed pain of life in the ghettos |
| Louis Armstrong | trumpet player of the jazz age |
| Bessie Smith | female blues singer |
| John Steinbeck | wrote The Grapes of Wrath, about the Dust Bowl |
| Richard Wright | African American writer who wrote Native Son |
