| Sinclair Lewis  AKA Harry Sinclair Lewis
Born: 7-Feb-1885
Birthplace: Sauk Center, MN
Died: 10-Jan-1951
Location of death: Rome, Italy
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Greenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, MN
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry Father: Edwin Lewis (country doctor)
Wife: Grace Livingston Hegger (m. 15-Apr-1914)
Wife: Dorothy Thompson (journalist, m. 14-May-1928, div. 2-Jan-1942, one son)
Son: Michael Sinclair (b. 20-Jun-1930, d. 6-Mar-1975, with Thompson)
Mother: Emma Kermott
University: Yale University (1905)
America First Committee
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1926 for Arrowsmith, refused
Nobel Prize for Literature 1930
Appears on the cover of:
Time, 8-Oct-1945
Is the subject of books:
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, 1961, BY: Mark Schorer
The Art of Sinclair Lewis, 1967, BY: D. J. Dooley
Sinclair Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1997, BY: Stephen R. Pastore
Author of books:
Our Mr. Wren (1914, novel)
Main Street (1920, novel)
Babbitt (1922, novel)
Arrowsmith (1925, novel)
Mantrap (1926, novel)
Elmer Gantry (1927, novel)
The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928, novel)
Dodsworth (1929, novel)
Ann Vickers (1933, novel)
It Can't Happen Here (1935, novel)
The Prodigal Parents (1938, novel)
Gideon Planish (1943, novel)
Cass Timberlane (1945, novel)
Kingsblood Royal (1947, novel)
The God-Seeker (1949, novel)
World So Wide (1951, novel)
Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #1856 (14 cents, issued 21-Mar-1985)
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