Sinclair Lewis





Sinclair Lewis

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

died
January 10, 1951

gender
male

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930 "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters."


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