Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. He is best known for his works Main Street and Babbitt. He earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for both of these works and later declined to accept a Pulitzer for Arrowsmith. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He was born Harry Sinclair Lewis in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and although he was proud of his Midwestern hometown, he traveled a great deal in...
