Lewis, Sinclair (1885–1951)

Sinclair Lewis, satiric novelist, was the first American to be honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. Born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis abandoned the thought of becoming a Christian missionary in 1903 and entered Yale University. He took ...

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