The Roaring Twenties Famous People of the Twenties
The 20's was the time for art. It was considered the golden age for writers.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. His best known novel is The Great Gatsby.
Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930.
Ernest Hemingway was an American author and journalist. Hemingway’s most famous book is The Old Man and the Sea. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Sports became popular.
On August 6, 1926, at the age of 19, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. The swim took 14 hours and 31 minutes. She was the sixth person to successfully swim the 21 miles from Dover, England to Cape Griz-Nez.
Baseball player Babe Ruth, boxer Jack Dempsey, football player Red Grange, tennis player Bill Tilden, and golfer Bobby Jones were known as the Big Five of sports during the 1920's.
Babe Ruth hit more home runs for the New York Yankees than any other man in history.
Jack Dempsey won the world heavyweight boxing championship.
Bobby Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete on a national and international level. He won both the British and U.S. Opens and the British and U.S. Amateur championships all in the same year.
Red Grange was a professional American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and for the short-lived New York Yankees. In 2008, he was named the best college football player of all time by ESPN.
Bill Tilden was the World's Number 1 tennis player for seven years.
Charles Lindbergh flew his plane The Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris in just over 33 hours.
Jazz music was extremely popular.Jazz was the most popular type of music for young people and the flapper culture.
W. C. Handy was an extremely influential songwriter who played the American form of music known as the blues.
Bessie Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s.