Biography
Harry Lewis Sinclair was born in Sauk, Centre Minnesota on February 7, 1885. Growing up he had two brothers and a father who worked as a physician. His mother died when he was six years old and his father would soon remarry. Feeling unaccomplished with himself, Lewis tried to run away and join the Spanish-American war in 1898, but he was unsuccessful (Borgoin).
In 1903 Lewis enrolled at Yale University, where he wrote many pieces of literature. Over the summer he traveled to England, little did he know it would be the start of many other travels around the world. Lewis came back to Yale in the fall, but soon left again and became a janitor at a Utopia ran by Upton Sinclair. He would only stay for a few months and then travel to many other places. Lewis graduated from Yale in 1907. After college he traveled to Iowa, New York, California, and Washington D.C. Though he was working as a newspaper reporter, he would try and sell his short stories. In 1914, Lewis marries Grace Hegger. They would have a son name Wells, who is killed in World War II. (Borgoin)
Early in the 1920’s Lewis came out with Main Street. The Story according to Howes, “centered on what Lewis would term “the village virus”, meaning the negative effects of life in the stifling atmosphere of a small U.S. town.” (Howes). Main Street was a best-seller although many people were not big fans of the novel. In 1922, Lewis wrote a novel called Babbitt, which also gained popularity. According to Borgoin “the reason for Babbitt’s success is that Lewis, never a master of literary realism despite his rotational skills, deliberately wrote in a fantastic, almost surrealistic style.” (Borgoin). In 1926, Lewis came out with Arrowsmith , and he was awarded the Pulitzer ...
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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...
John L. Lewis was born on the 2nd of February in 1880 in Lucas, Iowa and he’s was born in to a family of immigrant welch parents which worked in coal mining and trade unionism. By the age of 15 John began working in coal mining and 2 years later he married his wife Myrta Bell, she influenced him to read many things which would later come in to his aid in his public speeches as flowery phrases, Shakespearean quotations, and mixed metaphors. He soon move to souther...
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