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Feb 18, 2021 · - Sinclair Lewis. 2. "Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue." - Sinclair Lewis. 3. "It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others ...
The Sinclair Lewis Society was created to encourage the study of, critical attention to, and general interest in the work, career, and legacy of Sinclair Lewis, the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. We seek to facilitate a broader discussion of his writing as a social critic and satirist among scholars, critics ...
1420930923. Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. Satirizing small-town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre ...
Sinclair Lewis. Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist and playwright. He has been called, “the conscience of his generation” [1] for his satirical portrayals of American cultural manners and mores from small town provincialism to religious fundamentalism. During the “speakeasy” decade of the ...
By CLAUDIA STONE WEISSBERG. Sinclair Lewis. Columbia University Secretary Frank D. Fackenthal wrote to Sinclair Lewis a few days before the 1926 Pulitzer Prizes were to be announced to congratulate him on winning the Novel prize for Arrowsmith. On May 6, three days after the announcement, Lewis refused the prize and told the world why.
Jan 7, 2014 · Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and graduated from Yale University in 1908. His college career was interrupted by various part-time occupations, including a period working at the Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair's socialist experiment in New Jersey.
Sinclair Lewis ( Sauk Centre, Minnesota, 1885. február 7. – Róma, Olaszország, 1951. január 10.) irodalmi Nobel-díjas amerikai regény-, novella-, és drámaíró. A díjat Lewis első amerikai íróként kapta meg, az indoklás szerint „...erőteljes, életteli leíró művészetéért és szellemes humoráért, melyekkel új és ...
