*It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. [Gertrude Stein](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) Writer and art collector Gertrude Stein (born February 3, 1874) coined the term "Lost Generation" to describe the generation that came of age during World War One. Ernest Hemingway used it as part of an epigraph for The Sun Also Rises, popularizing the term.