Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 17, 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Also known as Sinclair Lewis. The son of Edwin J. Lewis and Emma Kermott Lewis. Sinclair was the youngest out of two older brothers Fred Lewis and Claude Lewis. They lived in a town called Sauk Centre, their house was located on 810 Sinclair Lewis Avenue Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Now you can get a tour of the Sinclair’s house for only five dollars per person. He was red headed, awkward, tall, super thin, and he was not the best looking person in the world. Plus Sinclair was made fun of because his unappealing appearance, and he also had skin cancer. Edwin was a physician and as a parent of three he was exceedingly strict. Emma died of tuberculosis when little …show more content…
During his middle school years Sinclair was a failure. When high school had begun, his grades enhanced. Within the high school days he became more involved in debate and other types of public speaking. After graduating from Sauk Centre he attended Oberlin Academy in Ohio in 1902. While he was attending Oberlin Academy he was preparing himself for Yale. He had multiple part-time jobs in the writing/magazine industry. A year later he went to Yale and he realized that he did not fit in with everyone else. Before graduation day he dropped out. In the year of 1907 he returns to Yale and he graduated in 1908. For the next four years he worked as a reviewer, editor, and many more positions. Hike and the Aeroplane was the first novel he had written, but he did not put his name on the book, he had put the name “Tom Graham”, which was published in 1912. Grace Hegger was the name of his first wife married in 1912. They met in an elevator, he was working for Stokes, and Grace was working for Vogue. When his book came out Our Mr. Wrenn came out two years later, Grace and Sinclair got married. Their marriage did not last long, that ended in 1928. They had a son together who was killed by a
When he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1925 after that he attended Lincoln College at Oxford.
Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20th 1978. Sinclair grew up in a broken household; his father was an alcohol salesman and killed himself drinking. While his mother would not even think about drinking alcohol. So these personalities naturally clashed. So Sinclair found some solace in books, Sinclair was a natural writer and he began publishing at the young age of fifteen years old. Sinclair started off going to school at a small college by the name of New York City College. This was just temporary as Sinclair would need time and money to move higher up to a form of better education. So as a result Sinclair took the initiative and he started writing columns on ethnic jokes and hack fiction for small magazines in New York. The money he earned writing these columns allowed him to completely pay for New York City College, and eventually enroll to attend Columbia University. Sinclair worked as hard as he possibly could to get into Columbia University and he was going to do the absolute best he could while he was attending the University. Since Sinclair needed ex...
In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis to act as his private secretary. Meriwether Lewis was a skilled frontiersman and an amateur scientist. Around 1804 Thomas Jefferson made Meriwether Lewis another offer, he asked him if he would led an expedition into the lands west of the Mississippi. Lewis asked one of his closet friend, William Clark, if he would join Lewis in this expedition; William Clark agreed to be his co-captain. Meriwether Lewis was an extraordinary man for the things he's accomplished as a frontiersman, amateur scientist, an intellectual and a explorer.
When he was fifteen years old, his mother died from appendicitis. From fifteen years of age to his college years, he lived in an all-white neighborhood. From 1914-1917, he shifted from many colleges and academic courses of study as well as he changed his cultural identity growing up. He studied physical education, agriculture, and literature at a total of six colleges and universities from Wisconsin to New York. Although he never completed a degree, his educational pursuits laid the foundation for his writing career.
Long ago in the year, 1863, on a many acred farm, there lived a man by the name, Augustus McCallister. McCallister was a wealthy,scoldful and greedy man who inherited land formerly owned by his father in which flourished with many crops and income. How could a single man run such an abundance of land, you may ask? The land was ran by slaves who day by day, harvested crops with gloveless hands which were torn and battered by the thorns of the brush. Who walked on dried,rough and tilled ground with shoeless feet. Who worked in the heat of the day without an ounce of water or a shirt on their back. McCallister would whip the men till they were blue in the face, if the commands he gave at the beginning of the day were not met. He would beat the women till they no longer recognizable for simply making a dish that he did not fancy. The children were cursed at and scolded for playing instead of working. He was a very cruel man and he enjoyed every second of it.
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was born in a boardinghouse in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20, 1878, to Upton Beall and Priscilla Harden Sinclair. Sinclair's childhood was complicated and the future of his family was always economically uncertain. His family was still recovering from the devastation dealt to the Southern aristocracy by Federal Reconstruction, and his father, an unsuccessful liquor salesman, was an alcoholic who often squandered the family's income. When he was ten, Sinclair's family moved to New York City, where they lived in numerous boardinghouses. Sinclair explains, "...one night I would be sleeping on a vermin-ridden sofa in a lodging house, and the next night under silken coverlets in a fashionable home. It all depended on whether my father had the money for that week's board" (qtd. in Liukkonen).
Howell was originally raised in New Jersey. At age 13, Howell and his family moved to New Mexico. In 1964, Howell attended Yale University where he studied art history, modern French and Spanish literature. But later in Howell's college years, he started going to New York City's jazz clubs. In 1967, Howell dropped out of Yale University.
Edwin was never without sorrow or regrets. His father, Junius Brutus, caught a severe cold on a ship from New Orleans, up the Mississippi River heading to Cincinnati. It caused him to become very thirsty and parched, and his father drank glasses of contaminated river water. On November 30, 1852, the famous actor died. Edwin was only nineteen years old when he heard the news, and it brought on waves of depression. Edwin developed a drinking habit trying to escape from his depression, much like his father. (Giblin, 27, 31)
After both his mother and wife died, Teddy became depressed and threw himself in his political work. Teddy was so stressed that he couldn’t raise his own daughter so he gave her to his sister while he moved west to the frontiers. He lived there for a few years, raising cattle and being alone. He moved back east. When he moved back he married his childhood love, Edith Kermit Carow. They got married and had five boys.
I believe that C.S. Lewis is reasonable when he states that all men, women and children have “ some kind of Law or Rule of fair play or decent behaviour or morality.” I think this because, ever since we we born we were taught what is right and wrong. One may ask, “what is right or wrong, what is fair or unfair, what is just or unjust?” The answers, however, various from person to person, since our upbringing and experiences are different. For instance, a child born into a family were swearing was tolerated, may believe that swearing is like saying “hello”, an everyday normal word. A child born into a family that prohibited swearing, and punished for cursing, may believe that swearing is wrong. This is the predicament that most of us find our selfs in. For this reason, many of us quarrel not like animals, but in the human sense. C.S Lewis, claims that the “Law of Human Nature” is real and not a social construct. I agree with C.S Lewis since, a social construct changes with social views, and the Laws of Human Nature remain the same. A great examples of this is the Catholic Church. Roughly 60 years ago, Catholicism was extremely dominant; children, adults,
Sinclair’s full name is Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20, 1878. From early age he has been exposed to differences which might’ve influenced him greatly when it came to his thinking later on in life. His father was an alcoholic liquor salesman and his mother was religiously strict. He was raised on the edge of poverty but he was exposed to riches when it came to his mother’s wealthy family.
He moved to Chicago near his brother Karl's home. He worked as a manual laborer until near the turn of the century, when he enlisted in the United States Army and was called but did not see action in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. After the war in 1900, he attended Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Eventually he secured a copywriter job in Chicago, where he was highly successful. In 1904, he married Cornelia Lane, the daughter of a wealthy Ohio family.
He started using comedy and humor to make friends and entertain his classmates. Immediately after high school, he began attending college. He first studied political science at Claremont Men’s College where he started taking improvisation courses. When he discovered his love of comedy and improvisation, he switched colleges to attend the College of Marin to study acting. It was there that he also received a Scholarship to Juilliard in New York City (Robin Williams American Actor and Comedian). Using the knowledge he gained at college, he left to pursue a career in acting.
Upton Sinclair was an American writer whose works reflects not only the inside but also the socialists view on things. Upton sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born into a family which held to it’s Southern aristocracy in every thing that was done. When Sinclair was ten years old, the family packed up and moved to New York City ( Where there were more opportunities to succeed ).
In 1930, May attended college at Michigan State University where he majored in English, but after a brief time he was asked to leave due to his involvement with a radical student magazine. He then transferred to