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Sinclair Lewis

Born

in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, The United States

February 07, 1885

Died

January 10, 1951

Genre

Fiction

Influences

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Novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis satirized middle-class America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927) and first received a Nobel Prize for literature in 1930.

Middle-class values and materialism attach unthinking George F. Babbitt, the narrow-minded, self-satisfied main character person in the novel of Sinclair Lewis.

People awarded "his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."

He knowingly, insightfully, and critically viewed capitalism and materialism between the wars. People respect his strong characterizations of modern women.

Henry Louis Mencken wrote, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade...i ...more

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Sinclair Lewis’s books

Average rating: 3.78 · 94,267 ratings · 8,907 reviews · 497 distinct works ‧ Similar authors

	Main Street 3.78 avg rating — 26,539 ratings — published 1920 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Babbitt 3.69 avg rating — 24,473 ratings — published 1922 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It Can't Happen Here 3.80 avg rating — 22,626 ratings — published 1935 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, E.L. Doctorow (Afterword) 3.84 avg rating — 8,359 ratings — published 1925 — 367 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elmer Gantry 4.01 avg rating — 6,206 ratings — published 1927 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dodsworth 4.04 avg rating — 1,442 ratings — published 1929 — 196 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kingsblood Royal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 854 ratings — published 1947 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free Air by Sinclair Lewis, Robert E. Fleming (Introduction) 3.76 avg rating — 895 ratings — published 1919 — 611 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Main Street / Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, John Hersey (Editor) 4.10 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 1992 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cass Timberlane 3.60 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 1945 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Sinclair Lewis

The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1904–1949) (1 book)
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Sinclair Lewis,

Samuel J. Rogal (Editor)

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Quotes by Sinclair Lewis (?)

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

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“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
― Sinclair Lewis

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“It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.”
― Sinclair Lewis

tags: motivational, on-writing

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Polls

May 2016 New School Group Read

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 478 pages

29 votes, 13.9%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages

26 votes, 12.5%

1903, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, 172 pages

25 votes, 12.0%

1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, 288 pages

22 votes, 10.6%

1996, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, 835 pages

20 votes, 9.6%

1914, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages

17 votes, 8.2%

1913, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 134 pages

14 votes, 6.7%

1957, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 296 pages

13 votes, 6.3%

1993, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, 448 pages

11 votes, 5.3%

1949, The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, 276 pages

10 votes, 4.8%

1922, Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 356 pages

6 votes, 2.9%

1936, Mephisto by Klaus Mann, 272 pages

6 votes, 2.9%

1924, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 225 pages

4 votes, 1.9%

1933, Lost Horizon by James Hilton, 241 pages

3 votes, 1.4%

1989, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 544 pages

2 votes, 1.0%

208 total votes

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