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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 · 93,897 ratings · 8,846 reviews · 354 distinct works â€� Similar authors
Main Street

3.78 avg rating — 26,496 ratings — published 1920 — 135 editions
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Babbitt

3.69 avg rating — 24,428 ratings — published 1922 — 1325 editions
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It Can't Happen Here

3.80 avg rating — 22,400 ratings — published 1935 — 365 editions
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Arrowsmith

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3.84 avg rating — 8,346 ratings — published 1925 — 365 editions
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Elmer Gantry

4.01 avg rating — 6,187 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

October 2017 New School Classic Poll

 
  54 votes, 17.9%

 
  45 votes, 15.0%

The Trial by Franz Kafka, 255 pgs, 1925
 
  44 votes, 14.6%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pg, 1969
 
  38 votes, 12.6%

 
  26 votes, 8.6%

 
  22 votes, 7.3%

Howards End by E.M. Forster, 246 pgs, 1910
 
  18 votes, 6.0%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 127 pages, 1923
 
  15 votes, 5.0%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 555 pgs, 1990
 
  14 votes, 4.7%

Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym, 186 pages, 1977
 
  11 votes, 3.7%

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, 367 pgs, 1984 & 1993
 
  7 votes, 2.3%

 
  7 votes, 2.3%

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