sinclair lewis

     

His later works include 1949's "The God-Seeker", about a missionary in his own native Minnesota

Trivia about sinclair lewis

  • It's said he turned down Pulitzer for “Arrowsmith” because he felt he was due one sooner
  • In the 1930s this "Main Street" author served as book editor for Newsweek
  • In order to write his 1922 novel "Babbitt", this author studied real estate
  • This "Babbitt" author published his 1st novel, "Hike And The Aeroplane", under the pseudonym Tom Graham
  • Jack London often purchased story ideas, including "The Assassination Bureau", from this "Babbitt" author
  • "The Man from Main Street" is a collection of this Nobel Prize winner's essays
  • The Reader's Encyclopedia said, "He loved the... main streets of America even as he deplored them"
  • He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
  • "The Chronicler of Main Street"
  • Awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith", he said no thanks
  • Sidney Howard helped this author dramatize "Dodsworth"
  • "Gantry", a musical based on a novel by this man, opened February 14, 1970 & closed February 14, 1970
  • You'll find this author's boyhood home in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, 3 1/2 blocks west of Main Street
  • When his "Arrowsmith" won for Fiction in 1926, he declined the prize
  • I borrowed a volume of his works that includes "Elmer Gantry" & "Dodsworth"
  • In 1930 this "Main Street" author became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature
  • This writer was born on Feb. 7, 1885 in Sauk Center, Minn.--perhaps on the town's "Main Street"
  • The heroine of this author's "Main Street" escapes her miserable small town--for a while
  • When he died in 1951, his ashes were returned to Sauk Centre, Minnesota
  • A fascist named Berzelius Windrip becomes president of the U.S. in this "Dodsworth" author's novel "It Can't Happen Here"
  • His father Emmet, a country doctor, gave him much of the background for Dr. Kennicott in his novel "Main Street"
  • 1920:Gopher Prairie
  • Boosters' clubs were so popular they became fodder for satire in this author's "Babbitt"
  • A collection of his letters, "From Main Street to Stockholm", was published posthumously in 1952