Sinclair Lewis
was an American writer. He lived from 1885 to 1951. His most famous works include Main Street, Babbit, and many others. His form of writing was satirical and his work reflected a lot of his life. Lewis was the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature. In total, Lewis wrote 22 novels and 3 plays.
was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre in the heart of Minnesota. His father was a Dr. Edwin J. Lewis, country doctor and his mother was Emma Kermott Lewis, the daughter of a Canadian Physician. His mother died in 1891 when he was only six and his father remarried the year after to Isabel Warner. During his childhood he became very introverted since he didn't have many friends and he ...
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graduated Yale in 1908. After he got his degree, he worked for publishing houses and various magazines in Iowa, Carmel, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York City. During his time in Greenville Village, he associated with some radicals like John Reed and Floyd Dell, and he became, for a while, member of the socialist party. In 1912, Lewis published his first book, Hike and the Aeroplane. This book was published under the pseudonym Tom Graham. This book was about a boy and his adventures. In 1914, Lewis got married to Grace Livingston Hegger, and editor at Vogue. For the next 2 years two years he worked as an editor and advertising manager at the book publishing firm George H. Doran Company. But in 1916, Lewis abandoned his job and decided to travel around the country with his wife.
In 1917 he published The Job and The Innocents and his son, Wells, was born. In 1919, he published Free Air. After publishing these two novels, Lewis decided to devote his life to writing and in ...
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is greater than his desire for fredom. He does, however, encourage the rebellion of his son, Ted. Babbitry later became a synonym with unthinking commercialism.
Arrowsmith was Lewis's next novel published in 1925. As the son and grandson of physicians, Sinclair Lewis had a store of experiences and given knowledge to write the book. It showed the life of a doctor caught between his idealism and commercialism. It is about the life of Martin Arrowsmith, an ordinary guy who gets involved in medicine at 14 as an assistant to the drunken physician in his home town. It is Leora Tozer who makes Martin's life good. With liveliness and love, she urges him beyond the boundaries of the ...
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