Sinclair Lewis
1885 - 1951
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(1885-1951) Novelist, writer, playwright, satirist. Sinclair Lewis wrote the novels “Main Street” (1920), “Babbitt” (1922), “Arrowsmith” (1925; Pulitzer Prize, refused), and “Elmer Gantry” (1927), which satirized middle-class life in the 1920s. Lewis was first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1930. He and his wife Dorothy Thompson lived at 17 Wood Lane in Bronxville, New York (later burned down) for 5 years. Also lived at 20 Vandeventer Avenue, Port Washington, New York from 1914 to 1915. Lewis also lived at 37 West 10th Street, 10 Van Nest Street (later 69 Charles Street), the Hotel Lafayette on University Place, 200 Central Park West, and 42 West 58th Street in Manhattan, New York.
Full Name
Sinclair Lewis
Locations
Nassau
Author's Timeline
Unknown
RESIDENCE
Unknown
RESIDENCE
Unknown
INTERMENT
1885
BIRTH
1914
RESIDENCE
1920
LITWORK
Novel.
1922
LITWORK
Novel.
1925
LITWORK
Novel; winner of 1925 Pulitzer Prize, but refused.
1927
LITWORK
Novel; satirized middle-class life in the 1920s.
1929
LITWORK
Novel.
1930
OTHER
1933
LITWORK
Novel.
1935
LITWORK
Novel.
1943
LITWORK
Novel.
1945
LITWORK
Novel.
1949
LITWORK
Novel.
1951
DEATH
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