Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, this short book looks back to what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the Toronto Star, Ernest Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921; Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist forms, James Joyce had just completed Ulysses, and Gertrude Stein held court at 27 rue de Fleurus—and deemed young Ernest a member of la génération perdue. It was during these years that the yet-unpublished young writer gathered the material for The Sun Also Rises, and the masterpieces that followed.