Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), produced such 20th-century classics as "Main Street," "Elmer Gantry," "Dodsworth," and "Babbit," also ...

Early in June 100 years ago, literary notable Sinclair Lewis arrived in Mankato to work on a manuscript that turned out to be his most well-known book. The J.W. Schmitt house was home for Lewis and ...

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Of all the great modern American novelists, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck and Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis has always been my favorite. His works were required reading for my generation, and ...

Such idiosyncratic politics reflected the book’s author, who was by no means a proto-pussy-hatted leftist. Lewis’s political beliefs were both complex and strikingly simple. He was a mild supporter of ...

Sinclair Lewis once remarked that he wanted no ceremony at his funeral except the singing of “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here.” The committee of prominent citizens which last week was making plans for ...

Fans of Minnesota author Sinclair Lewis will gather next week in Sauk Centre, his home town, to mark the 100th anniversary of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Arrowsmith.” Many believe the story of ...

Lately, like a truffle dog on the hunt, I have sniffed along the New Haven trail of the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. The search led me to Yale’s Old Campus, where Harry ...

HAVING read in the Herald Tribune Book Review that Melville Cane, described therein as Sinclair Lewis’s literary executor, is helping a Random House editor collect Lewis’s non-fiction for publication, ...