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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 ...
Pages in category "Sinclair Lewis" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Man Who Knew Coolidge is a 1928 satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis. It features the return of several characters from Lewis' previous works, including George Babbitt and Elmer Gantry. Additionally, it sees a return to the familiar territory of Lewis' fictional American city of Zenith, in the state of Winnemac.
Sinclair Lewis was born in that house on February 7, 1885, joining two older brothers, Fred (born 1875) and Claude (born 1878). [5] When Lewis was just a few months old the family moved across the street into this house. [3] Edwin Lewis was a physician and conducted his medical practice out of the house, as was common at the time.
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Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925.It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined). Lewis was greatly assisted in its preparation by science writer Paul de Kruif, [1] who received 25% of the royalties on sales, although Lewis was listed as the sole author.
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.