Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the son of a country doctor, an awkward child who felt a stranger in his own town. A graduate of Yale in 1908, he worked as a journalist and then as a reader for publishers, published five novels to little notice and found success at thirty-five. He refused the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, explaining that prizes make writers docile, and in 1930 received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first American to win it. He wrote more than twenty novels, settled in Italy late in life and died in Rome in 1951.

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• NovelBabbittSinclair Lewis · 1922LiteraturePublic domain