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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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Bartel survived the ordeal by playing dead and called the authorities after her assailant left the apartment. [15] [16] Bartel and another woman were the only identified surviving victims. [17] At his trial, Chemirmir was accused of smothering 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris to death. He was indicted on 11 additional counts of capital murder in May ...
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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.
Lewis's emphasis on the freedom that automobiles would eventually give the working and middle classes bolsters the egalitarian, democratic aesthetic. Free Air is one of the first novels about the road trip, a subject around which the Beats (most notably Jack Kerouac ) would build a cult following in the mid-20th century.
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.