LOST GENERATION

LOST GENERATION from page 1 Wescott’s friendship with Jean Cocteau, an influential French poet and artist a decade Hemingway’s senior. Cocteau, according to history, was addicted to opium, which Hemingway may have believed Wescott took as well. Other sources considered the authors’ rivalry and Wescott’s tendency to associate more with French and British writers than the American expatriates