Sinclair Lewis(1885-1951)
- Writer
- Actor
Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for
Literature, was a colossus of American letters in the first half of the
last century. Arguably, he is the first major "modern" writer of the
20th century, as there is American literature before "Main Street"
(1920) and after that seminal novel, which revolutionized writing in
the US. His eminence as a great American writer was eclipsed by
Ernest Hemingway, who although more
influenced by Sherwood Anderson and
Gertrude Stein, owes a debt to Lewis, as
do most realists in 20th-century American letters.
