According to Malcolm Cowley's "Appendix: Years of Birth" in Exile's Return, the Lost Generation is the age group of more than 100 writers, "most of whom were born between 1894 and 1900" (315)-that is, young enough to be Dreiser's children. According to the account by Jerome Loving, "Lewis made the accusation publicly at a dinner in honor of a Russian writer at the Metropolitan Club when he pointedly refused to take the podium in the presence of the plagiarist as well as 'two sage critics' (Heywood Broun and Arthur Brisbane) who had objected to his receiving the Nobel Prize" (358). According to the tape that is transcribed and printed in Faulkner in the University, he said: I think that Dreiser knew exactly what he wanted to say, but he had a terrific difficulty in saying it, there was never any fun to him, any pleasure to him, he was convinced that he had a message, I don't mean an ideological message or political but he had to tell folks, This is what you are. According to Dreiser's account, the national newspaper coverage about the lynching of a Jew, Leo Frank, in Georgia reached him travelling in Ohio.