sinclair lewis: introduction

sinclair lewis: introduction philosophy and literature sinclair lewis: introduction sinclair lewis (1885-1951) best known as a “satirist of midwestern provincialism” “satire”---literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn by wit, irony, sarcasm “provincialism”---lack of sophistication among his best-known novels main street (1920) babbit (1922) arrowsmith (1925) elmer gantry (1927) this one was awarded the pulitzer prize, which, however, lewis declined! in 1930, lewis was awarded---and accepted---the nobel prize for literature … the first u.s. author to be so honored after winning the nobel, he wrote eleven more novels, the best-known being this one, published in 1935, about the election of a fascist to the u.s. presidency h. l. mencken wrote of him “[if] there was...

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