Although Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was the most celebrated American literary figure of the 1920s, his popular, mildly satirical novels today are valued mainly for their sociohistorical relevance. In his best work Sinclair Lewis wrote with...

The career of Sinclair Lewis is impressive in its presumption, range, and achievement. He undertook to reflect in his novels the distresses felt by a generation trying to find its way in a period of change, caught between illusion and reality, puzzled...

The literary reputation of Sinclair Lewis rests on his best novels, which depict and often penetrate the confusion caused by America's change from a rural to an urban, industrial culture. Lewis's 125 short stories, however, seldom transcend the tastes...

Born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis would become one of America's most forceful social critics during the 1920s. After attending Yale, he had held an assortment of editorial and journalistic positions by his mid-twenties,...

2sinclair Lewis Excerpt from Babbitt Published in 1922 Anative of the midwestern United States, Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) chronicled through novels and short stories the changes brought by the shift from a mainly rural, agricultural society to...

Sinclair Lewis Born February 7, 1885 (Sauk Centre, Minnesota) Died January 10, 1951 (Rome, Italy) Novelist Sinclair Lewis may have been the most popular novelist of the Roaring Twenties. In such best-selling works as Main Street and Babbitt , he...

Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 — January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930 he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and...

SINCLAIR LEWIS Rebel From Main Street By Richard Lingeman Random House. 659 pp. $35 Sinclair Lewis was a strange, difficult, troubled man who published, in the early 1920s, two of the more important novels in American literature, Main Street and...

"Another perfect day, all jade and sapphire. No place can have more beautiful days than Minnesota when it behaves." - Sinclair Lewis, Aug. 3, 1942 Books like "Main Street" and stories of its author's sharp tongue have left a lingering impression...

Today is Wednesday, July 25, the 206th day of 2007. There are 159 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 25, 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and...

The campaign of presidential hopeful John Edwards has a ready answer for all the criticism about his expensive haircuts and expansive home: A man can be wealthy and care about the poor, too.Just look at a Democratic hero _ Robert F. Kennedy.Edwards, the 2004 vice...

Who is Sinclair Lewis? What does he think of the America in the 1920s? What values did he endorse?

Traces the life of Sinclair Lewis, his works, and all with properly cited quotes from various research vistas.