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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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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Main Street (novel) (redirect from Gopher Prairie (Sinclair Lewis))
is a 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 a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States, it follows...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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birthplace of Sinclair Lewis, a novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It inspired his fictional Gopher Prairie, the setting of Lewis's 1920 novel...
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lines of such novels as Sherwood Anderson's 1919 Winesburg, Ohio, Sinclair Lewis's 1920 Main Street, and Carl Van Vechten's The Tattooed Countess. Wood...
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1930 Nobel Prize in Literature (category Sinclair Lewis)
1930 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American novelist Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his...
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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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Laxness include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway. Halldór Guðjónsson was...
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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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Ethel M. Dell Harriet and the Piper by Kathleen Norris Main Street by Sinclair Lewis The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey...
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Gideon Planish (category Novels by Sinclair Lewis)
Gideon Planish is a 1943 novel by American writer Sinclair Lewis. The novel tells the story of Gideon Planish, an unprincipled social climber who becomes...
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