Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951), full name Harry Sinclair Lewis, was a US writer and playwright. He was the first from US and the Americas to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1930). He is best known for his novels "Main Street" (1920), "Babbitt" (1922), "Arrowsmith" (1925), "Elmer Gantry" (1927), "Dodsworth" (1929), and "It Can't Happen Here" (1935).

Wisdom & Quotes

• To George F Babbitt ... his motor-car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism.

- Babbitt

• Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

- Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1930

George S Patton