Sinclair Lewis (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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Sinclair Lewis was the son of a conservative, highly respected physician in the small town of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. His birthplace had not too long before been wild prairie populated by pioneers and native American tribes and retained the wooden sidewalks and hitching posts of that era. The heroic individualism of the pioneers would always be a standard by which he would judge the small-minded conformity into which he felt his town and the country had descended.

An imaginative child, Lewis was also influenced by tales of medieval Camelot and the Holy...

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