Sinclair Lewis (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

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A prolific and provocative writer of newspaper editorials, magazine articles, and novels, Sinclair Lewis joined such literary contemporaries as H. L. Mencken and Sherwood Anderson in condemning the “village virus” affecting small towns throughout America. Lewis’ novel Main Street (1920) established his reputation as a social satirist with its meticulous depiction of a stifling and reactionary small...

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