Lewis, Sinclair
Lewis, Sinclair ( Harry Sinclair Lewis ) ( 1885 – 1951 ),American novelist, born in Minnesota. After graduating from Yale he spent some years in journalism and published several novels, but none was of much importance until Main Street which scored an enormous success upon its appearance in 1920 . In it he described with realism and satire the dullness of life in a small Midwestern town called Gopher Prairie. He strengthened his reputation as the most widely read and controversial of American writers with Babbitt ( 1922 ), the story of George Babbitt , a prosperous and self-satisfied house agent in the Midwestern town of Zenith, who comes to doubt the conventions of middle-class society, but who is eventually reabsorbed after a period of defiance and ostracism; Arrowsmith ( 1925 ), which describes the career of a bacteriologist and, like many of Lewis's works, is based on considerable research; Elmer...
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