The city Ernest Hemingway lived in during the 1920s as part of the Lost Generation was Paris. He moved there with his first wife, Hadley Richardson, in December 1921 and became part of the city’s influential expatriate literary community.
Paris offered Hemingway access to writers, artists, publishers, and booksellers who shaped modernist culture after World War I. He met or formed friendships with figures including Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce. He also worked as a foreign correspondent while developing his fiction.
The term Lost Generation is closely linked with this Paris circle, although Gertrude Stein is credited with first using the phrase. Hemingway helped popularize it through the epigraph to his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises. Paris was not simply a backdrop: the city’s cafés, literary salons, and expatriate networks became central to his development as a writer.