Complex sentence: Lewis attended State University of New York at Purchase and graduated in 1997 with a degree in Literature; his Senior Literary Thesis was on the comic book Watchmen, and was awarded third best Liberal Arts thesis paper of his graduation year.
Split into simpler sentences: Lewis attended State University of New York at Purchase and graduated in 1997 with a degree in Literature. His Senior Literary Thesis was on the comic book "Watchmen", and was awarded third best Liberal Arts thesis paper of his graduation year.