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The Life of Sinclair Lewis. Born in 1886, in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Henry Sinclair Lewis became the first American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The son of a country doctor, from a family of three boys, he grew up introverted and intelligent in this town with a population of 2,800, most of which was Swedish and Norwegian.
Dec 29, 2016 · Sinclair Lewis said "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), the American novelist hailed for such 20th-century classics as ...
Oct 8, 1992 · 1. Sinclair Lewis: An American Life (McGraw-Hill, 1961).↩. 2. For a brilliant analysis of Cather’s sexual and social confusions read Claude J. Summer’s Gay Fictions (Continuum, 1980): he believes that in “Paul’s Case” Cather was reacting fiercely against the aestheticism of Oscar Wilde (condemned ten years earlier); for her, the young Paul is a Wilde in ovo, and doomed.
Praise for Sinclair Lewis: "Lingeman's Sinclair Lewis is a model of its kind: vivid, but never overdrawn, written in a lean, wry prose that stays grounded in the documentary evidence." Wall Street Journal "The most important reevaluation of Lewis in more than a generation. . . . it will certainly provide a biographical touchstone for new ...
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1930, the first American novelist to be so honored. He was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the son of a doctor. After an extremely unhappy childhood, he went to Yale but left before graduation to work in Upton Sinclair’s socialist colony at Helicon Hall in Englewood, New Jersey.
Jan 17, 2017 · The architect of Windrip’s campaign is a savvy newsman named Lee Sarason, the novel’s closest approximation of Steve Bannon. It is Sarason, not Windrip, who actually writes “Zero Hour ...
From Main Street to Stockholm: Letters of Sinclair Lewis, 1919-1930 / edited by Harrison Smith. – New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1952: The Man From Main Street : a Sinclair Lewis reader: Selected Essays and Other Writings 1904-1950 / Ed.by Harry E. Maule and Melville H. Cane, Assisted by Philip Allan Friedman. – New York : Random House, 1953
