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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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Works by Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt 4,425 copies, 81 reviews
Main Street 3,561 copies, 61 reviews
It Can't Happen Here 2,594 copies, 71 reviews
Arrowsmith 1,787 copies, 28 reviews
Elmer Gantry 1,332 copies, 40 reviews
Dodsworth 527 copies, 9 reviews
Kingsblood Royal 460 copies, 9 reviews
Cass Timberlane 364 copies, 4 reviews
Main Street / Babbitt 359 copies, 3 reviews
Arrowsmith / Elmer Gantry / Dodsworth 264 copies, 1 review
Ann Vickers 144 copies, 1 review
Free Air 127 copies, 10 reviews
Lewis at zenith; a three-novel omnibus: Main Street. Babbitt. Arrowsmith 119 copies
The Prodigal Parents 84 copies, 2 reviews
Work of Art 80 copies, 2 reviews
Mantrap 70 copies, 3 reviews
Bethel Merriday 69 copies, 1 review
The Job 66 copies, 3 reviews
Our Mr. Wrenn 66 copies, 4 reviews
Gideon Planish 65 copies, 1 review
The God-Seeker 65 copies, 3 reviews
Selected Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis 62 copies, 3 reviews
World So Wide 61 copies, 4 reviews
The Trail of the Hawk 33 copies
A Sinclair Lewis Reader: The Man from Main Street 32 copies, 1 review
The Man Who Knew Coolidge 30 copies, 1 review
Sinclair Lewis 27 copies
Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis 24 copies
The Days of the King (Preface) 23 copies
The Innocents: A Story for Lovers 23 copies
Elmer Gantry [1960 film] (Novel) 23 copies, 1 review
Go East, Young Man: Sinclair Lewis on Class in America 21 copies
I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories 18 copies, 1 review
If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis 18 copies
Storm in the West 10 copies, 1 review
From Main Street to Stockholm: Letters of Sinclair Lewis, 1919-1930 8 copies, 1 review
Stories 7 copies, 1 review
The Ghost Patrol and Other Stories 7 copies
Hike and the Aeroplane 6 copies
The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis 6 copies
Los Premios Pulitzer de novela . Vol. I El cuarto mandamiento;El doctor… 6 copies
1947 Vtg Sinclair Lewis Kingsblood Royal Race Relations America African… 5 copies
Cheap and Contented Labor: The Picture of a Southern Mill Town in 1929,… 4 copies
The Ghost Patrol 4 copies
John Dos Passos' Manhattan transfer 4 copies
Jayhawker: a Play in Three Acts 4 copies
7 Novel Dystopian Collection 3 copies
Sinclair Lewis's Collected Works 3 copies
Die Hauptstraße 1 3 copies
The Best is Yet to Be 3 copies
Le opere : Babbit ; Falene attorno alla lampada ; Il sentiero dei salici ;… 3 copies
Let's Play King 3 copies
Seven Selected Short Stories 3 copies
Die Hauptstraße 2 3 copies
The Willow Walk 3 copies
Summary and analysis of it can't happen here 2 copies
Gesammelte Erzählungen 2 copies
Best-in-books 2 copies
Bethel Merridayová 2 copies
Young Man Axelbrod 2 copies
30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (Golden Deer Classics) 2 copies
The American village in a global setting selected papers from an… 2 copies
Minnesota Diary, 1942-46 2 copies
Travel Is So Broadening 2 copies
Walt Disney's Bongo (a Big Golden book) (Original story) 2 copies
Opere 2 copies
Best-In-Books: Dodsworth / Great Impersonation / Green Hat / Along With… 2 copies
Vzuch Zadarmo 1 copy
1921 SINCLAIR LEWIS MAIN STREET CAROL KENNICOTT EARLY PRINTING GIFT IDEA 1 copy
Main Street: The Best Adaptation 1 copy
Rare KINGSBLOOD ROYAL SINCLAIR LEWIS 1947 Hardback Book Random House 1 copy
RARE 1947 SINCLAIR LEWIS KINGSBLOOD ROYAL NOBEL PRIZE AFRICAN AMERICAN GUY 1 copy
La via principale - volume primo (Maree) 1 copy
Det kan aldri hende her : roman 1 copy
Tuhlaaja-vanhemmat : romaani 1 copy
Kraljevski Kingsblood 1 copy
Meillä sitä ei voi tapahtua 1 copy
Sinclair Lewis (Twayne's U.S. Authors Series) 1 copy
. Sauk Centre, 7/2/1885 - Roma, 10/1/1955 1 copy
Krely Královská 1 copy
Aire libre - Hermann Lauscher - Vida azarosa (Contributor) 1 copy
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis [Legend Library Classics Edition](annotated) 1 copy
Peatänav : Carol Kennicotti lugu : [inglise keelest tõlkinud… 1 copy
Собрание сочинений. Том 9 1 copy
Собрание сочинений. Том 4 1 copy
Собрание сочинений. Том 1 1 copy
Собрание сочинений. Том 6 1 copy
Собрание сочинений. Том 5 1 copy
Собрание сочинений. Том 8 1 copy
Собрание сочинений. Том 7 1 copy
Собрание сочиненний. Том 3 1 copy
Бэббит ; Эроусмит 1 copy
Doktor Arrowsmith : [romaan] 1 copy
Собрание сочинений. Том 2 1 copy
Sinclair Lewis (series) 6 vols 1 copy, 1 review
Un americain parle 1 copy
Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith (Bloom's Modern Critical… 1 copy
Král na toulkách 1 copy
Dragon's Teeth 1 copy
Babbitt - bk1151 1 copy
Vid ratten 1 copy
SINCLAIR LEWIS PREMIUM COLLECTION NOVELS 1 TO 7. Our Mr.Wrenn; The Trail… 1 copy
La avenida de los sauces 1 copy
Vzduch zdarma, Clovek ktery znal prezidenta, Motyli ve svetle obloukovek 1 copy
The man from Main Street : selected essays and other writings: 1904-1950 1 copy
Samples: A Book Containing Many Fine Pages from the Books to be Published… 1 copy
Kuninganna kiri : valik novelle 1 copy
Sinclair Lewis : Nobel per la letteratura 1930: Il nostro signor Wrenn -… 1 copy
Moths in the Arc Light 1 copy
The Sinclair Lewis Collection 1 copy
Sinclair Lewis Set: Ann Vikers, Arrowsmith, Babbit, It Can't Happen Here,… 1 copy
Virga Vay & Allan Cedar 1 copy
Af Kongeblod (bind 1 og 2) 1 copy
L'amore in automobile 1 copy
Stories of Sinclair Lewis (Collected Stories by the World's Greatest… 1 copy
Babbitt (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) 1 copy
Main Street (Volume 1 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) 1 copy
Novelas escogidas Sinclair Lewis tomo 1 1 copy
VAHSI ASK 1 copy
The Works of Sinclair Lewis 1 copy
THE Arrowsmith: Pulitzer Prize Novel 1 copy
1945 SINCLAIR LEWIS CASS TIMBERLANE MINNESOTA HUSBANDS & WIVES AMERICANA 1 copy
Die Hauptstraße. Carola Kennicotts Geschichte. 1 copy
2018 1 copy
A book of prefaces [by] Van Wyck Brooks, G.K. Chesterton, Bernard De Voto,… 1 copy
Fuego otoänal : novela 1 copy
Hlavní třída 1 copy
Kingsblood 1 copy
Novelas escogidas (Calle mayor, Babbitt, El doctor Arrowsmith) 1 copy
Gass Timberlane 1 copy
Martin Arrowsmith. 2 1 copy
Tohtori Arrowsmith 1 copy
Cárceles de mujeres 1 copy
Sinclair Lewis Boxed Set – 16 titles in One Volume: Babbitt, Main… 1 copy
"... König sein dagegen sehr!" Roman 1 copy
Muž, který znal presidenta 1 copy
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The Old Man and The Sea (Introduction, some editions) 25,588 copies, 428 reviews
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Introduction, some editions) 15,948 copies, 155 reviews
Short Story Masterpieces (Contributor) 547 copies, 4 reviews
A Subtreasury of American Humor (Contributor) 238 copies, 2 reviews
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to… (Contributor) 193 copies, 3 reviews
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime (Contributor) 153 copies, 5 reviews
Twenty Grand Short Stories (Contributor) 133 copies
The Norton Book of Travel (Contributor) 103 copies, 1 review
The Fantastic Pulps (Contributor) 67 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Humorous Short Stories [Edited by Robert N. Linscott] (Contributor) 67 copies, 2 reviews
Great Stories by Nobel Prize Winners (Contributor) 53 copies, 1 review
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's… (Contributor) 52 copies
The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (Contributor) 49 copies
Nobel Prize Library: Kawabata, Kipling, Lewis 34 copies
Ellery Queen's Book of Mystery Stories by 25 Famous Writers (Contributor) 32 copies, 1 review
The Lucifer Society (Contributor) 31 copies, 1 review
An American Omnibus (Contributor) 28 copies
The good old days : a history of American morals and manners as seen… (Introduction) 25 copies, 1 review
Rogues' Gallery: The Great Criminals of Modern Fiction (Contributor) 25 copies
Dodsworth [1936 film] (Original story) 19 copies, 2 reviews
The Panorama of Modern Literature (Contributor) 14 copies, 1 review
Nobel Writers on Writing (Contributor) 12 copies
Jurgen and the Censor: Report of the Emergency Committee Organized to… (Contributor) 10 copies
The Best Short Stories of 1918 and the Yearbook of the American Short… (Contributor) 10 copies
New Stories for Men (Contributor) 10 copies
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller… (Contributor) 9 copies
Arrowsmith [1931 film] (Original novel) 7 copies, 1 review
The Three Readers (Editor, some editions) 4 copies
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Canonical name
Legal name
Lewis, Harry Sinclair
Other names
Lewis, Red
Graham, Tom
Date of birth
1885-02-07
Date of death
1951-01-10
Burial location
Greenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
Place of death
Rome, Italy
Cause of death
advanced alcoholism
Places of residence
Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Carmel, California, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
New York, New York, USA
Education
Oberlin Academy
Yale University (AB ∙ 1908)
Occupations
novelist
short-story writer
playwright
sold fiction plots to novelist Jack London
ghostwriter
Relationships
Thompson, Dorothy (wife|divorced)
Lewis, Grace Hegger (wife|divorced)
Lewis, J. P. Sinclair (grandson)
Wharton, Edith (friend)
Acheson, Dean (friend)
Organizations
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1935])
National Institute of Arts and Letters (vice president)
Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, New Jersey
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California writers' colony
Transatlantic Tales, New York, New York (assistant editor)
Awards and honors
Nobel Prize ( [1930])
First American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature
National Institute of Arts and Letters (vice president)
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Litt.D., Yale University
Agents
Edith Haggard
Short biography
Disambiguation notice

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