She then started writing her own column and going on the radio. She was more widely read than her husband ever was. Brainin said normally the company has to create parts of characters lives not included in the script. Because Sinclair Lewis was a real person and there is abundant information, they have the luxury of finding the real man. They came to Sauk Centre to find out where Sinclair Lewis came from, they left with their own view of the town.
People here are marvelous.
The St. Croix Festival Theatre is in its fifth season. Bookseller remembers afternoon with Lewis by Anne Robinson, Herald Intern J. Harold Kittleson, Minneapolis, describes Sinclair Lewis as a warm, friendly, restless man. Kittleson, age 91, managed book stores and worked as a salesperson for Random House, Lewis' last publisher, for 45 years. Kittleson remembers sitting in the livingroom of the Lewis home. He and Lewis discussed the book column Lewis was writing for Esquire magazine at the time.