Sinclair Lewis (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)

Early Life

The third son of Edwin J. and Emma Kermott Lewis, Harry Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, on February 7, 1885. His father was a country doctor, as were his maternal grandfather and, later, his older brother Claude. This association with medicine would help him in the writing of Arrowsmith (1925); it would also give him a lifelong inferiority complex for not following his father’s and brother’s profession.

In addition to providing the model for Gopher Prairie in his fiction, Sauk Centre contributed in other ways to Lewis’...

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