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Sinclair Lewis


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

Died
January 10, 1951

Genre
Fiction

Influences
Jacques Loeb, Félix d'Herelle, Upton Sinclair ...more


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

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.79 · 98,578 ratings · 9,611 reviews · 531 distinct works • Similar authors
Main Street
3.78 avg rating — 27,014 ratings — published 1920 — 3 editions
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It Can't Happen Here
3.81 avg rating — 25,204 ratings — published 1935 — 370 editions
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Babbitt
3.69 avg rating — 24,982 ratings — published 1922 — 210 editions
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Arrowsmith
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3.84 avg rating — 8,603 ratings — published 1925 — 68 editions
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Elmer Gantry
4.01 avg rating — 6,443 ratings — published 1927 — 182 editions
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Dodsworth
4.05 avg rating — 1,501 ratings — published 1929 — 196 editions
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Kingsblood Royal
3.99 avg rating — 893 ratings — published 1947 — 124 editions
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Free Air
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3.77 avg rating — 915 ratings — published 1919 — 463 editions
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Main Street / Babbitt
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4.10 avg rating — 484 ratings — published 1992 — 22 editions
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Cass Timberlane
3.63 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1945 — 35 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
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“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
― Sinclair Lewis
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“It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.”
― Sinclair Lewis
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Polls

November 2014 New School Classics Poll

1920, The Age of Innocence byEdith Wharton, 305 pages
 
  19 votes, 14.1%

1911, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 155 pages
 
  19 votes, 14.1%

 
  14 votes, 10.4%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 428 pages
 
  13 votes, 9.6%

1962, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pages
 
  10 votes, 7.4%

 
  10 votes, 7.4%

 
  9 votes, 6.7%

 
  8 votes, 5.9%

 
  7 votes, 5.2%

1994, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages
 
  7 votes, 5.2%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.7%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1920, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 454 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1960, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, 242 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  2 votes, 1.5%

 
  2 votes, 1.5%

 
  1 vote, 0.7%

135 total votes
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