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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 · 97,137 ratings · 9,359 reviews · 503 distinct works • Similar authors

	Main Street 3.78 avg rating — 26,882 ratings — published 1920 — 137 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 3.81 avg rating — 24,254 ratings — published 1935 — 369 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 — 24,827 ratings — published 1922 — 700 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 — 8,543 ratings — published 1925 — 241 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 — 6,377 ratings — published 1927 — 179 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 4.05 avg rating — 1,491 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 3.98 avg rating — 879 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 — 63 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 — 392 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

October 2017 New School Classic Poll

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, 182 pgs, 1959

54 votes, 18.0%

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, 471 pgs, 1940

45 votes, 15.0%

The Trial by Franz Kafka, 255 pgs, 1925

43 votes, 14.3%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pg, 1969

38 votes, 12.7%

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, 400 pg, 1935

26 votes, 8.7%

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pg, 1916

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%

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 189 pgs, 1967

7 votes, 2.3%

300 total votes

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