Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)
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...
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Excerpt from BabbittPublished in 1922
Anative of the midwestern United States, Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) chronicled through novels and short stories the changes brought by the ...
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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-s...
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Biography EssayThe 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 i...
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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 relevanc...
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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...
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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 12...
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Sinclair Harry Lewis was an American author during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Lewis was one of the greatest satirists of his time. Lewis possessed values of ignorance, small town values, and reli...
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Harry Sinclair Lewis was born February 7th, 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Lewis' mother died in 1891. Lewis's father remarried and Lewis became close to his stepmother, Isabel. Lewis's father, Emm...
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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 passe...
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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 lo...
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Suddenly, it's Huckabee. The surge of the former Arkansas governor in the race for the Republican nomination has the pell-mell excitement of one of Napoleon's victorious rampages across Europe in h...
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Compiled as testament to the “belief in the story as a system of knowledge,” E.L. Doctorow’s book of essays provides a superb overview both of American literature and of the theme...
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Compiled as testament to the “belief in the story as a system of knowledge,” E.L. Doctorow’s book of essays provides a superb overview both of American literature and of the theme...
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Chalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-reali...
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Chalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-reali...
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Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, by Michael Rosenthal. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 528 pages, $35.
To begin at the end: Nicholas Murray But...
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Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, by Michael Rosenthal. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 528 pages, $35.To begin at the end: Nicholas Murray Butler, h...
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Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)
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