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Sinclair Lewis
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States 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), Arrowsmi…
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culture · American writer (1885–1951) · novelist · playwright · journalist · writer · also Sinclair Lewis, Lewis
Born 7 February 1885 · Died 10 January 1951 · Q123469
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Sinclair Lewis said "When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2019· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “Sinclair Lewis said, "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."” Pants on Fire.
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2002· 1 entry
"Main Street made [Lewis] rich—earning him about 3 million current dollars" (almost $5 million, as of 2022)
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1990· 1 entry
It was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, and in 2005 Time magazine named it one of the "100 Best Movies" of the past 80 years
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1965· 1 entry
“Monarch Notes: Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt”
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1963· 1 entry
With a foreword by Schary detailing the work's origins, the authors' creative process, and the screenplay's ultimate fate
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1961· 1 entry
That the phenomenal success of Main Street "was the most sensational event in twentieth-century American publishing history"
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1960· 1 entry
Polish American sculptor Joseph Kiselewski was commissioned to create a bust of Lewis, now in the Great River Regional public library in Sauk Centre
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1951· 2 entries
Died 1951-01-10.
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Lewis died in Rome from advanced alcoholism, on January 10, 1951, aged 65.
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1944· 2 entries
Amid Allied efforts to rescue the "Lost Battalion" in France
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Lewis campaigned to have Dreiser recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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1943· 1 entry
Lewis went to Hollywood to work on a script with Dore Schary, who had just resigned as executive head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's low-budget film department to concentrate on writing and producing his own films
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1937· 1 entry
Lewis checked in for treatment to the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
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1935· 1 entry
“t Happen Here (1935), a novel about the election of a fascist to the American presidency. After praising Dreiser as”
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1934· 1 entry
By Sidney Howard, who also wrote the screenplay for the 1936 film version directed by William Wyler, which was a great success at the time
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1930· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1930).
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Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from the United States to receive the award, after he had been nominated by Henrik Schück, member of the Swedish Academy
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They had a son, Michael Lewis (1930–1975), who became a stage actor.
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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,
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1929· 1 entry
1935: Selected Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis
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1928· 2 entries
Regarding her work "The New Russia" and Dreiser's "Dreiser Goes to Russia", though The New York Times also linked the dispute to competition between Dreiser and Lewis over the Nobel Prize
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And Dorothy purchased a second home in rural Vermont
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1917· 1 entry
They had one son, Wells Lewis (1917–1944).
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1914· 2 entries
Lewis married Grace Livingston Hegger (1887–1981), an editor at Vogue magazine
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Followed by The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life (1915) and The Job (1917)
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1903· 1 entry
But did not receive his bachelor's degree until 1908, taking time off to work at Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair's cooperative-living colony in Englewood, New Jersey, and to travel to Panama
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-02-07.
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