Lewis, Sinclair - Research Article from Roaring Twenties Reference Library

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 9 pages of information about Lewis, Sinclair.

Lewis, Sinclair - Research Article from Roaring Twenties Reference Library

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 9 pages of information about Lewis, Sinclair.
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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 captured many details of daily life while exposing the dullness, conformity, and hypocrisy of average, middle-class citizens of the United States. Part of what made Lewis such an effective chronicler of this era was his great skill in imitating the speech of ordinary people. Some critics felt that his harsh social criticism reflected his internal struggle between a desire for respectability and a yearning for deeper meaning and discovery.

A Restless Wanderer and Writer

Almost all of Sinclair Lewis's fiction features characters and settings drawn from the midwestern setting he knew so well. Born Harry Sinclair Lewis in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he was one of three sons of a physician...

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