Lewis was born on Feb. 7, 1885, in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. He was the youngest of three boys. Their father, Edwin J. Lewis, was the small town’s doctor; their mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died when ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), produced such 20th-century classics as "Main Street," "Elmer Gantry," "Dodsworth," and "Babbit," also ...
Fans of Minnesota author Sinclair Lewis will gather next week in Sauk Centre, his home town, to mark the 100th anniversary of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Arrowsmith.” Many believe the story of ...
THE MAN FROM MAIN STREET (371 pp.) —Edited by Harry Maule and Melville Cane—Random House ($3.75). Like a good many other U.S. novelists who get a kick out of posing as intellectual primitives, ...
And Author Lewis had a phonographic knack for recording the hodgepodge patter of U.S. provincial speech that at best was inspired, at worst vivid vaudeville. As a storm of controversy whipped up the ...
Sinclair Lewis wrote “It Can’t Happen Here” in less than two months during the summer of 1935 while at his summer residence in Barnard. Photo via the New York Public Library Nobel Prize winning author ...
Exile from Main Street: A Portrait of Sinclair Lewis-a one-man play celebrating the influential author known for his satirical and humorous critiques of society and human nature-will be performed for ...
Last Sunday, with Rudy Vallee on the turntable, I slipped on my plus-fours to take a seat on the veranda, sip from my glass of sarsaparilla and dive back into my well-thumbed copy of "Babbitt." OK, ...