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Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair (1885–1951), American novelist, achieved success with his novel
Main Street (1920), which describes with realism and satire the dullness of life in a small mid-western town. He strengthened his reputation with
Babbitt (1922), the story of George Babbitt, a prosperous and self-satisfied house- agent in the mid-western town of Zenith;
Arrowsmith (1925);
Elmer Gantry (1927), a satiric view of mid-western religious evangelism; and
Dodsworth (1929). Lewis was awarded the
Nobel Prize in 1930.
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SINCLAIR LEWIS' HOMECOMING.(VARIETY)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 1/7/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Minnesota when it behaves." - Sinclair Lewis, Aug. 3, 1942 Books like "Main...lingering impression that Sinclair Lewis was always blaringly critical about...depicted in the 1961 biography "Sinclair Lewis: An American Life" by Mark Schorer...
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BIOGRAPHY; Master from Main Street; A nuanced bio of Sinclair Lewis revisits Minnesota's troubled Nobel laureate.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 1/20/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...hardly pick up a paperback of a Sinclair Lewis novel without finding somewhere...Minn., where he was born Harry Sinclair Lewis on Feb. 7, 1885. Lewis was...lives in Wisconsin. BIOGRAPHY Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street By...
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Still Gopher Prairie - kind of; Sauk Centre: Sinclair Lewis left his mark here, but many no longer care.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 7/15/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...000 summer visitors to everything Sinclair Lewis, the hometown author who became...Thursday: "Growing up Main Street - Sinclair Lewis: Our SOB." `Gopher Prairie...of small town life portrayed by Lewis in his novels that upset the town...
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SINCLAIR LEWIS Rebel From Mai ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/20/2002; ; 700+ words
; SINCLAIR LEWIS Rebel From Main Street By Richard Lingeman Random House. 659 pp. $35 Sinclair Lewis was a strange, difficult, troubled man...contemporary and rival Theodore Dreiser, Lewis was not an unduly graceful or original prose...
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Sinclair Lewis, short story writer.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 7/10/2005; 700+ words
; ...SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Sinclair Lewis is one of our most famous novelists...story writer. Between 1904 and 1947 Lewis published more than 100 stories in...indictment nor a great revelation. Lewis knew what it was, and in part lamented...
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The babbitt booster: Sinclair Lewis changed a nation with his ferocious satire.(Features)(Books)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 1/10/2002; 700+ words
; ...seeking and shunning friendship, Sinclair Lewis helped chart America's literary...mass of materials assembled by Lewis's 1961 biographer, Mark Schorer...journalism at Northeastern University. Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street By Richard...
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Sinclair Lewis' `Main Street' Likely to Be Preserved
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 4/2/1993; 700+ words
; ...like because of the famous novel by Sinclair Lewis written in 1920. He called the novel...unflattering to smalltown life in America. Lewis' book did not endear the writer...your town as written by Sinclair Lewis in the first few pages of Masin Street...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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A REFRESHER COURSE IN SINCLAIR LEWIS.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 1/25/2002; 700+ words
; Byline: William Dieter Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Main Street By Richard...friend once remarked that Sinclair Lewis looked like ``he had a fire burning...him.'' He had that part right. Lewis' fire burned so fiercely and for so...
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Nobel love letters; Author Sinclair Lewis was 54 when he met 18- year-old actress Marcella Powers. Their intriguing eight-year relationship is revealed in a collection of 260 Lewis letters acquired by St. Cloud State University.(VARIETY)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 7/16/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...winning author and Minnesota native Sinclair Lewis, at 57, writing to an actress 36...purchased that letter and 260 others that Lewis wrote Powers from 1939 to 1947...productive period. Many, including Lewis' latest biographer, believe that...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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One of them; Literary biography.(Literary biography: Sinclair Lewis)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 2/2/2002; 700+ words
; ...nice emblem of the paradoxical success of Sinclair Lewis. The five coruscating novels Lewis wrote in the 1920s gave enduring form to...and age. He worked towards it always." Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street. By Richard Lingeman...
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Lewis, Sinclair
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sinclair Lewis Born: February 7, 1885Sauk Centre...Babbitt could write, he would write like Sinclair Lewis." Later novels and the Nobel Prize...described earlier in Babbitt. In 1930 Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the...
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Harry Sinclair Lewis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Harry Sinclair Lewis Although Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885...Babbitt could write, he would write like Sinclair Lewis." Later Novels and Nobel Prize Lewis...the values of Babbittry. In 1930 Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the...
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Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Lewis, [Harry] Sinclair (1885–1951),born in Sauk...awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1926, which Lewis declined. Elmer Gantry (1927) is a...interests in European travel. In 1930 Lewis became the first American author to be...
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Sinclair Lewis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sinclair Lewis 1885-1951, American novelist, b. Sauk...Probably the greatest satirist of his era, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating...there is affection behind the irony. Lewis began his career as a journalist, editor...
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Poets Laureate and Prizes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Masefield 1930–67 Cecil Day-Lewis 1968–72 Sir John Betjeman...Sigrid Undset 1929 Thomas Mann 1930 Sinclair Lewis 1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1932 John...Edna Ferber, So Big 1926 Sinclair Lewis , Arrowsmith 1927 Louis Bromfield...
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