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Jun 12, 2024 · Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist and social critic who punctured American complacency with his broadly drawn, widely popular satirical novels. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to an American.
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6 days ago · Extract. Sinclair Lewis, conceivably the most famous American novelist of the 1920s, was as well a leading figure in the literary renaissance of that decade, a critical realist whose novels achieved national and international popularity.
Jun 12, 2024 · Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885, in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States. His birth geographical coordinates are 45° 44’ 15” North latitude and 94° 57’ 9” West longitude, with an altitude of 381 meters above sea level.
Jun 28, 2024 · Sinclair Lewis was a giant of American Literature for the first part of the twentieth century, yet few people remember his life or his works. This quiz is designed to capture the flavor of his greatest novels.
4 days ago · Learn about British writer C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Space Trilogy, and many others.
4 days ago · The Jungle is a novel by Upton Sinclair, published serially in 1905 and as a book in 1906. An exposé of the American meatpacking industry and the horrors endured by immigrant workers generated public outrage resulting in passage of federal legislation that improved food quality and working conditions.
Jun 17, 2024 · The excellent initiative described by Renée Loth in her June 14 Opinion column, “A new plot for America” — a revival and updated version of Sinclair Lewis’s 1936 theater project, “It ...
