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Sinclair Lewis decline the Pulitzer Prize? ... Lewis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize 
in 1926 for his novel, Arrowsmith. He was the first person who would not accept it. 
... And the Pulitzer Prize for novels is peculiarly objectionable because the terms
... [DOC] [TLE] Arrowsmith (novel) - Wikipedia [PAR] Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925. 
It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined). ... (He is born in Elk Mills, 
Winnemac, the same fictional state in which several of Lewis's other novels are 
set.) ... The novel comes full circle at the end as Arrowsmith deserts his wealthy... [DOC] [TLE] Letters of Note: All prizes, like all titles, are dangerous [PAR] Sep 28, 2012 ... In 1926, on discovering that his novel, "Arrowsmith," had been awarded what was 
... Lewis wrote the following letter to the Pulitzer Prize Committee and declined 
the honour. He remains the only person to have done so. ... And the Pulitzer Prize 
for novels is peculiarly objectionable because the terms of it... [DOC] [TLE] Sinclair Lewis - Sinclair Lewis: Won't Pulitzer, Will Nobel [PAR] Picture of Sinclair Lewis, author of Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and ... His 
journalistic novels poke and scold at the puritan terrors of village life ... the 
Pulitzer Prize, the ache must have beat out the pleasure: they rejected their ... 
That was 1923; this is Lewis in 1926, to his publisher, after widespread 
speculation that he... [DOC] [TLE] Reader's Almanac: A controversial Pulitzer Prize brings Edith ... [PAR] Jun 28, 2011 ... The three fiction judgesliterary critic Stuart Pratt Sherman, literature ... Wharton 
invited Lewis and his wife to visit her home the Pavillon ... Lewis would finally win 
the Pulitzer for Arrowsmith in 1926 but he refused to accept it. [DOC] [TLE] Sinclair Lewis, 'the Main Street burglary' and a rejection notice - The ... [PAR] On May 6, three days after the announcement, Lewis refused the prize and told 
the world why. ... He published four unsuccessful novels before achieving wide 
recognition with ... The book won. ... The 1926 Pulitzer jury unanimously favored 
Arrowsmith. ... He did not mention his rejection of the Pulitzer Prize, but he did 
say: I... [DOC] [TLE] Five Controversial Pulitzer Prize Winners (and Losers) [PAR] May 4, 2014 ... The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the most highly sought literary awards in 
the United States. Since its ... In 1926, Lewis won the Pulitzer for his book 
Arrowsmith. He refused it, however, stating, All prizes, like all titles, are... [DOC] [TLE] Why did Sinclair Lewis refuse the Pulitzer Prize awarded him for ... [PAR] He declined, writing to the Pulitzer committee: 'All prizes are dangerous. ... Lewis 
won, and accepted, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. ... celebrate American 
wholesomeness, his novels, which are critical, should not be awarded the prize. [DOC] [TLE] Welcome to Authors Road: Sinclair Lewis, Novelist [PAR] The first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Novels, Plays, Short 
Stories ... His step-mother, Isabel Lewis, who filled the house with books, read to 
him and encouraged him to ... Pulitzer Prize - Arrowsmith (1926), which he 
refused. [DOC] [TLE] Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith: Why everyone should read this 1925 ... [PAR] Oct 13, 2013 ... One of the most widely read medical novels of the twentieth century, ... it is true 
that Lewis mainly intended his novel to function as a satirical .... [15] Similarly, 
Lewis declined the Pulitzer Prize he won for Arrowsmith in 1926,... [DOC] [TLE] 9 Most Controversial Pulitzer Prize Winners of All Time ... [PAR] Journalist Walter Duranty won the Pulitzer Prize for 13 articles he wrote for The ... 
The Pulitzer Board has twice considered revoking the award but declined to do 
so ... The decision

Question: When his "Arrowsmith" won for Fiction in 1926, he declined the prize
Answer: Sinclair Lewis