Question

Which of the following were famous literary figures that appeared in the 1920s? Select all that apply. Rudolph Valentino William Faulkner Josephine Baker Bessie Smith Ernest Hemingway Sinclair Lewis

Answer 1

These were famous literary figures that appeared in the 1920s:
William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and Sinclair Lewis.
Rudolph Valentino and Josephine Baker were actors, and Bessie Smith was a singer.

Answer 2

Famous Literary figures on the 1920's were:

William Faulkner - He was a Nobel Prize winning novelist of the American South, he actively wrote from 1919 until is death in 1962. His most acclaimed novels were The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930).

Ernest Hemingway - He was a Nobel Prize winning American writer of novels and short stories. His first collection of stories called In Our Time was published in 1925.

Sinclair Lewis - He was an American novelist and social critic who wrote widely popular satirical novels. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to an American.

The others -

Rudolph Valentino was an Italian-born American actor who was idolized as the “Great Lover” of the 1920s.

Josephine Baker - American-born French dancer and singer who symbolized the beauty and vitality of black American culture, which took Paris by storm in the 1920s.

Bessie Smith - American Blues Singer in the 1920's and 30's.