name: Sinclair Lewis
birth_date: 1885-02-07 00:00:00
death_date: 1951-01-10 00:00:00
genres: Fiction
influences: Jacques Loeb, Upton Sinclair, Félix d'Herelle
avg_rating: 3.78
ratings_count: 92264
about: Novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis satirized middle-class America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927) and first received a Nobel Prize for literature in 1930. Middle-class values and materialism attach unthinking George F. Babbitt, the narrow-minded, self-satisfied main character person in the novel of Sinclair Lewis.  People awarded "his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." He knowingly, insightfully, and critically viewed capitalism and materialism between the wars. People respect his strong characterizations of modern women. Henry Louis Mencken wrote, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade...i Novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis satirized middle-class America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927) and first received a Nobel Prize for literature in 1930. Middle-class values and materialism attach unthinking George F. Babbitt, the narrow-minded, self-satisfied main character person in the novel of Sinclair Lewis.  People awarded "his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." He knowingly, insightfully, and critically viewed capitalism and materialism between the wars. People respect his strong characterizations of modern women. Henry Louis Mencken wrote, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade...it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclai... ...more