The Works Of Sinclair Lewis

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pretentious married woman sometimes found in
American upper-middle-class circles.

Among his later works are It Can't Happen Here (1935), the chilling story
of a future revolution leading to Fascist control of the U.S., and
Kingsblood Royal (1947), a novel on racial intolerance. Lewis was
fascinated by the theater. He collaborated on a dramatization of Dodsworth
(1934) with the American playwright Sidney Howard and did his own
dramatization of It Can't Happen Here (1936). Lewis died near Rome on
January 10, 1951. From Main Street to Stockholm, a collection of his
letters, was published posthumously in 1952. His reputation was
international. Although he generally scoffed at prizes and refused the
Pulitzer Prize in 1926 for Arrowsmith, Lewis accepted the 1930 Nobel Prize
in literature. He was the first American ever to receive this award. ...

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