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Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)

Author of Babbitt

Includes the names: Lewis Sinclair, Harry Sinclair Lewis, Синклер Льюис
Also includes: Sinclair (1)

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Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota. He was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. A lonely child, Lewis immersed himself in reading and diary writing. While studying at Yale University and living in writer Upton Sinclair's communal house, he wrote for Yale Literary Magazine and helped to build the Panama Canal. After graduating from Yale in 1908, Lewis began writing fiction, publishing 22 novels by the end of his career. His early works, while often praised by literary critics, did not reach popularity but with Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), and Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis achieved fame as a writer. His style of choice was satire; he explored American small-town life, conformity, hypocrisy, and materialism. Sinclair Lewis was married and divorced twice. As his career wound down, he spent his later life in Europe and died in Rome on January 10, 1951. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Babbitt… (more)
Babbitt 4,924 copies, 94 reviews
Main Street 3,989 copies, 71 reviews
It Can't Happen Here 3,199 copies, 84 reviews
Arrowsmith 2,032 copies, 32 reviews
Elmer Gantry 1,491 copies, 44 reviews
Dodsworth 591 copies, 13 reviews
Kingsblood Royal 537 copies, 10 reviews
Cass Timberlane 407 copies, 5 reviews
Main Street / Babbitt 374 copies, 3 reviews
Ann Vickers 168 copies, 2 reviews
Free Air 140 copies, 10 reviews
The Prodigal Parents 93 copies, 2 reviews
Work of Art 91 copies, 3 reviews
Bethel Merriday 81 copies, 1 review
Gideon Planish 77 copies, 2 reviews
Mantrap 76 copies, 3 reviews
The God Seeker 75 copies, 3 reviews
The Job 73 copies, 3 reviews
World So Wide 70 copies, 4 reviews
Our Mr. Wrenn 68 copies, 5 reviews
Sinclair Lewis 56 copies
The Man Who Knew Coolidge 35 copies, 2 reviews
Elmer Gantry [1960 film] (Novel) 35 copies, 1 review
The Days of the King (Preface) 25 copies
Storm in the West 10 copies, 1 review
Stories 8 copies, 1 review
Best-in-books 2 copies
Aire libre - Hermann Lauscher - Vida azarosa (Contributor) 2 copies, 1 review
Opere 2 copies
Walt Disney's Bongo (a Big Golden book) (Original story) 2 copies
Stories of Sinclair Lewis 2 copies, 1 review
بابت 1 copy
oil 1 copy
Vid ratten 1 copy
VAHSI ASK 1 copy
Babbitt 1 copy
2018 1 copy
The Old Man and the Sea (Introduction, some editions) 29,632 copies, 491 reviews
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Introduction, some editions) 18,374 copies, 178 reviews
Short Story Masterpieces (Contributor) 652 copies, 3 reviews
A Subtreasury of American Humor (Contributor) 271 copies, 3 reviews
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime (Contributor) 175 copies, 6 reviews
Twenty Grand Short Stories (Contributor) 155 copies, 3 reviews
The Norton Book of Travel (Contributor) 110 copies, 1 review
Fun and Fancy Free [1947 film] (Writer) 101 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Humorous Short Stories (Contributor) 82 copies, 2 reviews
Great Stories by Nobel Prize Winners (Contributor) 70 copies, 1 review
The Fantastic Pulps (Contributor) 69 copies, 2 reviews
The Lucifer Society (Contributor) 39 copies, 1 review
An American Omnibus (Contributor) 31 copies
Dodsworth [1936 film] (Original story) 27 copies, 3 reviews
The Panorama of Modern Literature (Contributor) 14 copies, 1 review
Nobel Writers on Writing (Contributor) 14 copies
New Stories for Men (Contributor) 13 copies
Arrowsmith [1931 film] (Original novel) 10 copies, 1 review
The Three Readers (Editor, some editions) 5 copies
Famous stories of five centuries (Contributor) 4 copies
American Short Stories (Contributor) 3 copies, 1 review
A Reader for Writers (Contributor) 2 copies
Modern American short stories (Contributor) 1 copy

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