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Sinclair Lewis


Born
in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, The United States
February 07, 1885

Died
January 10, 1951

Genre

Influences


Novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis satirized middle-class America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927) and first received a Nobel Prize for literature in 1930.

Middle-class values and materialism attach unthinking George F. Babbitt, the narrow-minded, self-satisfied main character person in the novel of Sinclair Lewis.

People awarded "his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."

He knowingly, insightfully, and critically viewed capitalism and materialism between the wars. People respect his strong characterizations of modern women.

Henry Louis Mencken wrote, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade...i
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Average rating: 3.78 · 93,911 ratings · 8,850 reviews · 482 distinct works â€� Similar authors
Main Street

3.78 avg rating — 26,500 ratings — published 1920 — 135 editions
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Babbitt

3.69 avg rating — 24,430 ratings — published 1922 — 1325 editions
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It Can't Happen Here

3.80 avg rating — 22,406 ratings — published 1935 — 4 editions
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Arrowsmith

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3.84 avg rating — 8,347 ratings — published 1925 — 101 editions
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Elmer Gantry

4.01 avg rating — 6,188 ratings — published 1927 — 174 editions
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Dodsworth

4.04 avg rating — 1,434 ratings — published 1929 — 196 editions
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Kingsblood Royal

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Free Air

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3.76 avg rating — 893 ratings — published 1919 — 611 editions
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Main Street / Babbitt

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4.10 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 1992 — 22 editions
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Cass Timberlane

3.60 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 1945 — 129 editions
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“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
Sinclair Lewis

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
Sinclair Lewis

“It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.”
Sinclair Lewis

Polls

August 2017 New School Classic Poll

The Color Purple by Alice Walker, 1982, 295 pgs
 
  46 votes, 14.6%

The Trial by Franz Kafka, 1925, 255 pgs
 
  32 votes, 10.1%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 1969, 448 pgs
 
  29 votes, 9.2%

 
  28 votes, 8.9%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906, 335 pgs
 
  26 votes, 8.2%

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, 1939, 231 pgs
 
  23 votes, 7.3%

Light in August by William Faulkner, 1932, 381 pgs
 
  22 votes, 7.0%

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, 1995, 216 pgs
 
  21 votes, 6.6%

 
  18 votes, 5.7%

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, 1956, 384 pgs
 
  18 votes, 5.7%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 1923, 127 pgs
 
  14 votes, 4.4%

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, 1977, 337 pgs
 
  12 votes, 3.8%

 
  9 votes, 2.8%

 
  6 votes, 1.9%

Watchers of the Sky by Alfred Noyes, 1922, 120 pgs
 
  4 votes, 1.3%

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis, 1927, 352 pgs
 
  3 votes, 0.9%

Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner, 1926, 265 pgs
 
  3 votes, 0.9%

Manalive by G.K. Chesterton, 1912, 160 pgs
 
  2 votes, 0.6%

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