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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...
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    Sinclairs", Sinclair Lewis & Upton Sinclair "Writings of Upton Sinclair" from C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History Upton Sinclair – Induction...
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    satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. Satirizing small-town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book and led...
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  • It Can't Happen Here (category Novels by Sinclair Lewis)
    Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. Set in the fictionalized version of 1930s United States, it follows...
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    The Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States. From 1889 until 1902...
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  • Winnemac (fictional U.S. state) (category Sinclair Lewis)
    the writer Sinclair Lewis. His novel Babbitt takes place in Zenith, its largest city (population 361,000, according to a sketch-map Lewis made to guide...
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    Babbitt (novel) (category Novels by Sinclair Lewis)
    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...
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    Elmer Gantry (category Novels by Sinclair Lewis)
    Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that presents aspects of the religious activity of the United States in fundamentalist...
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  • Sinclair, Scottish family Lord Sinclair, a title in the Peerage of Scotland Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), Nobel Prize-winning American writer Sinclair (singer)...
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    Arrowsmith (novel) (category Novels by Sinclair Lewis)
    novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined). Lewis was greatly assisted in...
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    literature winner Sinclair Lewis. In 1923, she married her first husband, Hungarian Joseph Bard; they divorced in 1927. Thompson met Lewis on July 8, 1927...
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  • Harry Lewis may refer to: Sinclair Lewis (Harry Sinclair Lewis, 1885–1951), American novelist and playwright Harry Lewis (musician) (1916–1998), English...
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    silent war drama film The Big Parade, depending on the metrics used. Sinclair Lewis was a popular author in the United States in the 1920s, with his books...
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  • narration by Lesy, as well as excerpts from works by Hamlin Garland, Sinclair Lewis, and Glenway Wescott, which thematically parallel the incidents depicted...
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    the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any of the sciences, and Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. "All Nobel...
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    theme of two novels by Sinclair Lewis—Main Street (published 1920) and Babbitt (1922). As indicated by an editorial that Lewis wrote in 1908 entitled...
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  • What I Mean? was regarded as a counterpart to It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, Browne's frequent debate partner on the 1940s lecture circuit. Browne...
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  • not overrule the foundation of actual knowledge. The satirical writer Sinclair Lewis waited a year to offer his scathing critique. He described Carnegie's...
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    Mantrap (1926 film) (category Films based on works by Sinclair Lewis)
    American silent comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. Mantrap stars Clara Bow, Percy Marmont, Ernest Torrence, Ford Sterling...
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    prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds...
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    Tarr Gimmitch" appears in the novel It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis. The book describes a fascist takeover in the US. "Who then, is Mrs...
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  • name of the concentration camp in the book “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Trianon...
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  • Elmer Gantry (film) (category Films based on works by Sinclair Lewis)
    Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis, and stars Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones...
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  • Whitfield Tennessee Williams P. G. Wodehouse Cornell Woolrich Gordon Young Sinclair Lewis, first American winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, worked as an...
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    interpreted as writers within everybody's reach, with authors like Sinclair Lewis and Pearl Buck receiving recognition. From 1946, a renewed Academy changed...
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    Morss Lovett, and novelist Hamlin Garland – voted to give the prize to Sinclair Lewis for his satire Main Street, but Columbia University's advisory board...
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    art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet. In 1933...
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    1937. He is the second American to become a literature laureate after Sinclair Lewis in 1930. Influenced by the realist playwrights Chekhov, Strindberg and...
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    Natalia Noemi "Teddy" Sinclair (née Cappuccini; born 15 August 1986) is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She has recorded music under various...
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    Laxness included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. Halldór Guðjónsson was...
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