7/8/2023 0 Comments Main street by sinclair lewisMencken wrote of him, " there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade. Lewis is respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. His works were critical of American capitalism and materialism during the interwar period. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935). Harry Sinclair Lewis (Febru– January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. Grace Livingston Hegger (1914–1925) (divorced)
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