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Sinclair Lewis American novelist Sinclair Lewis.

Sinclair Lewis

American writer
Also known as: Harry Sinclair Lewis
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Sinclair Lewis (born Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, Minn., U.S.—died Jan. 10, 1951, near Rome, Italy) was an American novelist and social critic who punctured American complacency with his broadly drawn, widely popular satirical novels. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to an American. Lewis graduated from Yale University (1907) and was for a time a reporter and also worked as an editor for several publishers. His first novel,...

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