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Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930. [1]
A fan wiki is a wiki [a] that is created by fans, primarily to document an object of popular culture. Fan wikis cover television shows, film franchises, video games, comic books, sports, and other topics. [1] They are a part of fandoms, which are subcultures dedicated to a common popular culture interest.
Tuck Everlasting is an American children's novel about immortality written by Natalie Babbitt and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1975. It has sold over 5 million copies and has been called a classic of modern children's literature.
Babbitt, a 1924 silent film based on the novel Babbitt (1934 film) , a 1934 film based on the novel Babbit, the family name of the title character of Runny Babbit , a book by Shel Silverstein
Natalie Zane Babbitt (née Moore; July 28, 1932 – October 31, 2016) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Her 1975 novel, Tuck Everlasting , was adapted into two feature films and a Broadway musical .
Typical iconography of Babbitt's brand include the number 730, jack-o'-lanterns and pumpkins, the star logo from the fast food brand Carl's Jr, the phrase Nothing Matters, and a scribble face design somewhat resembling Daniel Johnston's alien on the cover of the album Hi, How Are You.
In "The Last of the Provincials: The American Novel, 1915–1925" critic H. L. Mencken sees Winnemac as exemplifying the "standardized chain-store state" of the midwest. [4] In his critical study of Sinclair Lewis, Sheldon Grebstein notes that the "average mid-western state called Winnemac" is an amalgamation of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan.
The identifiable figures of the New Humanist movement, besides Babbitt and More, were mostly influenced by Babbitt on a personal level and included G. R. Elliott (1883-1963), Norman Foerster (1887-1972), Frank Jewett Mather (1868-1953), Robert Shafer (1889-1956) and Stuart Pratt Sherman (1881-1926).