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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."
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 ...
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The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920–1930. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1996. [full citation needed] Lingeman, Richard R. Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-87351-541-2. [full citation needed] Schorer, Mark Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, 1961, McGraw-Hill. OCLC 288825.
4 people were arrested for her murder but no charges were brought [78] July 1998 Julie Jones Manchester, England Severe crush injuries Her body was found naked wrapped in a carpet under bushes [79] [80] August 1998 Helen Sage Manchester, England Disappeared Her body has never been found [80] 28 Feb 1999 Marcella Davis: Wolverhampton, West Midlands
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The prosecution in the Delphi, Indiana, double murder trial showed the jury more than 40 crime scene photos, some of them graphic, on the third day of the proceedings. The photos, which caused ...
Sinclair Lewis praised the Nebraska portion of the work—"truth does guide the first part of the book"—but wrote that in the second half Cather had produced a "romance of violinists gallantly turned soldiers, of self-sacrificing sergeants, sallies at midnight, and all the commonplaces of ordinary war novels". [3] H. L.