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
Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis was one of the greatest American authors from the 1920s to the 1930s. Lewis’ early novels failed to bring him fame and success but that later changed when these novels came along. His successes in the novels Babbitt and Main Street shot him up to commercial fame. Lewis was a great American novelist and writer. Lewis wrote novels, poems, and even short stories. His works redefined and brought to light many issues in America that were thought to be normal and just but
In 1927, Sinclair Lewis published one of the most, if not the most, controversial book in American Literature titled Elmer Gantry. The novel is a picaresque novel in which the main character is immoral and lives by his wits (Elmer). Lewis was no stranger to controversy and Elmer Gantry was no exception to the rule. Lewis harshly scrutinizes industrialized religion in America, and reveals so called revivalists as hypocrites and morons. The book begins by describing the protagonist, Elmer Gantry,