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Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."
Sinclair Lewis was a prolific author having written 24 novels, more than 70 short stories, several plays and poetry collections. He is well known for the satirical novels Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935) – all of which critical acknowledgments of American capitalism and materialism in the interwar period.
It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by the American author Sinclair Lewis. [1] Set in a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States, it follows an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator (in allusion to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany), and Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor ...
"Little Bear Bongo" is a children's story written by Sinclair Lewis, first published in the September 1930 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, with illustrations by Josep Segrelles (under the name José Segrelles). [1]
It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 novel by Sinclair Lewis and the 1936 play version by Lewis and John C. Moffitt. Can't Happen Here or It Can't Happen Here may also refer to: "It Can't Happen Here", a song by Frank Zappa on Freak Out! , his 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention
The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis, considered an early declaration of the rights of working women.The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage.
Earlier on in his career, Lewis had reconnected with a childhood friend, Edward Francis Murphy, a priest who was a member of the Josephites (a Catholic society that specifically works with African Americans). Via this connection, Lewis learned of the intricacies of the black community in the United States, leading directly to his creation of ...
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]