Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) was the first US author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. At the time (1930), he described his life as “a rather humdrum chronicle of much reading, constant writing, undistinguished travel à la tripper, and several years of comfortable servitude as an editor.” His two dozen novels include Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, for which Lewis famously refused a Pulitzer and which was directed on film by John Ford, and Elmer Gantry, also adapted for the screen. Lewis died from complications due to alcoholism.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Gopher Prairie, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2013–2014