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Sinclair Lewis

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 19

TMDB ID: 148078

IMDb ID: nm0507760

Known for: Writing

Born: February 6, 1885

Died: January 10, 1951

Age: 65

Place of birth: Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1919 - 1968

Years active: 50

Average TMDB rating: 6.82

Wikidata: Q123469

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Biography

Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935). Several of his notable works were critical of American capitalism and materialism during the interwar period. Lewis is respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H. L. Mencken wrote of him, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds."

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