✐✎✐ Other "Great" Writers of the '20s ✎✐✎

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a noteworthy author of his time, but he was not alone in that regard.  Several other novelists led successful careers during the 1920s.

Agatha Christie

   1) Agatha Christie (who lived 1890-1976) was hugely popular for her scores of mystery/crime thrillers.  She also wrote romances, but under an alias.  Her most widely read work of fiction was Murder on the Orient Express, a story about a man murdered on a train by thirteen friends and family members.  According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Agatha Christie is the most popular novelist in history so far, selling over 4 billion books. 

Ernest Hemingway

   2) Ernest Hemingway (who lived 1899-1961) wrote multiple short stories, poems, and novels during and after the 1920s.  One of his most famous works written in the '20s is the love story The Sun Also Rises, about bull fighters and the people of Paris.
   3) Sinclair Lewis (who lived 1885-1951) was a Minnesota novelist and playwright who was good at depicting strong female characters in his works.  He is most famous for his novel Main Street, published in 1920.  It tells the story of a rich woman who moves to a country town, and does her best to improve the town in social ways.  However, the cliques and prejudices of the small village prove too strong, so in the end she moves back to her hometown.

Sinclair Lewis