Claim: Emma Lewis died in 1891, when Lewis was six but Sinclair Lewis an American writer and playwright was just a few months old when the family moved across the street into this house.
Evidence: Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. The Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States. From 1889 until 1902 it was the home of young Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), who would become the most famous American novelist of the 1920s and the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. When Lewis was just a few months old the family moved across the street into this house. Emma Lewis died in 1891, when Lewis was six.