Publisher's Synopsis
"America was going on the greatest, gaudiest spree in history and there was going to be plenty to tell about it."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
That was 100 years ago. So here we are again. At the beginning of the Twenties. Will this be a similar decade?
There's one way to tell: To look back at certain points and document what was happening a century before.
Based in part on her Ph.D. research at Dublin City University, in "Such Friends" The Literary 1920s, Vol. 1-1920, Kathleen Dixon Donnelly chronicles the events of the first year of the decade that included and affected the creative people in the four main writers' salons in the English-speaking Western world:
- William Butler Yeats and the Irish Literary Renaissance,
- Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group,
- Gertrude Stein and the Americans in Paris, and
- Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table,
