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Sinclair Lewis

Born

in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, The United States

February 07, 1885

Died

January 10, 1951

Genre

Fiction

Influences

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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 ...more

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Sinclair Lewis’s books

Average rating: 3.79 · 96,863 ratings · 9,308 reviews · 500 distinct works • Similar authors

	Main Street 3.78 avg rating — 26,857 ratings — published 1920 — 596 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It Can't Happen Here 3.80 avg rating — 24,092 ratings — published 1935 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Babbitt 3.69 avg rating — 24,793 ratings — published 1922 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, E.L. Doctorow (Afterword) 3.84 avg rating — 8,523 ratings — published 1925 — 363 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elmer Gantry 4.01 avg rating — 6,364 ratings — published 1927 — 178 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dodsworth 4.04 avg rating — 1,489 ratings — published 1929 — 198 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kingsblood Royal 3.99 avg rating — 874 ratings — published 1947 — 124 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free Air by Sinclair Lewis, Robert E. Fleming (Introduction) 3.76 avg rating — 909 ratings — published 1919 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Main Street / Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, John Hersey (Editor) 4.10 avg rating — 481 ratings — published 1992 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cass Timberlane 3.62 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 1945 — 126 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Sinclair Lewis

The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1904–1949) (1 book)
by

Sinclair Lewis,

Samuel J. Rogal (Editor)

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Quotes by Sinclair Lewis (?)

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

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

1154 likes

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

tags: motivational, on-writing

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Polls

July 2017 New School Classic Poll

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, 1951, 352 pgs

45 votes, 13.1%

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pgs, 1940

35 votes, 10.2%

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pgs, 1981

33 votes, 9.6%

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, 1967, 192 pgs

28 votes, 8.2%

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 1994, 607 pgs

27 votes, 7.9%

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 1945, 185 pgs

25 votes, 7.3%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pgs, 1969

25 votes, 7.3%

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 1930, 267 pgs

23 votes, 6.7%

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 1980, 416 pgs

21 votes, 6.1%

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 1996, 636 pgs

17 votes, 5.0%

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, 1992, 320

14 votes, 4.1%

The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, 1954, 189 pgs

13 votes, 3.8%

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, 1946, 335 pgs

11 votes, 3.2%

The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 1904, 425 pgs

10 votes, 2.9%

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 1920, 454 pgs

9 votes, 2.6%

Independent People by Halldór Laxness, 482 pgs, 1934

4 votes, 1.2%

Creation by Gore Vidal, 1981, 574 pgs

3 votes, 0.9%

The Street by Ann Petry, 1946, 435

0 votes, 0.0%

343 total votes

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