Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)
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Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota. He was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. A lonely child, Lewis immersed himself in reading and diary writing. mostra altro While studying at Yale University and living in writer Upton Sinclair's communal house, he wrote for Yale Literary Magazine and helped to build the Panama Canal. After graduating from Yale in 1908, Lewis began writing fiction, publishing 22 novels by the end of his career. His early works, while often praised by literary critics, did not reach popularity but with Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), and Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis achieved fame as a writer. His style of choice was satire; he explored American small-town life, conformity, hypocrisy, and materialism. Sinclair Lewis was married and divorced twice. As his career wound down, he spent his later life in Europe and died in Rome on January 10, 1951. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis Premium Collection (Our Mr. Wrenn / The Trail of the Hawk / The Job / The Innocents / Free Air / Main… (2018) 6 copie
Le opere: Babbitt, Falene attorno alla lampada, Il sentiero dei salici, Velocità, La lettera della regina (1979) 4 copie
A Book of Prefaces 2 copie
Free Air / Hermann Lauscher / On Overgrown Paths — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Opere 2 copie
Nobel Prize Library 2 copie
Travel Is So Broadening 2 copie
The American village in a global setting selected papers from an interdisciplinary conference in honour of Sinclair… (2007) 2 copie
oil 1 copia
You Know How Women Are 1 copia
Sinclair Lewis (series) 6 vols 1 copia
Lewis Sinclair 1 copia
Собрание сочинений. Том 9 1 copia
Letters from Jack London, containing an unpublished correspondence between London and Sinclair Lewis. Edited by King… (1966) 1 copia
Собрание сочинений. Том 2 1 copia
Babbitt / Arrowsmith 1 copia
Собрание сочинений. Том 8 1 copia
Собрание сочиненний. Том 3 1 copia
Собрание сочинений. Том 7 1 copia
Собрание сочинений. Том 5 1 copia
Собрание сочинений. Том 1 1 copia
Собрание сочинений. Том 4 1 copia
Собрание сочинений. Том 6 1 copia
The Watcher Across the Road 1 copia
Samples: A Book Containing Many Fine Pages from the Books to be Published by The Limited Editions Club in its Seventh… (1936) 1 copia
Virga Vay & Allan Cedar 1 copia
Kingsblood Royal, Book 1 of 2 1 copia
Sinclair Lewis Set: Ann Vikers, Arrowsmith, Babbit, It Can't Happen Here, Work of Art (1925) 1 copia
Arrowsmith, Volume 2 1 copia
[no title] 1 copia
Main Street: The Best Adaptation 1 copia
Opere correlate
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Collaboratore — 244 copie
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Collaboratore — 55 copie
The Good Old Days: A History of American Morals and Manners as Seen Through the Sears, Roebuck Catalogs (1940) — Introduzione — 29 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1918 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1918) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Jurgen and the Censor: Report of the Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch… (1920) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
The Banned Books Compendium: 32 Classic Forbidden Books — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Best-In-Books, Volume 48: Dodsworth / Great Impersonation / Green Hat / Along With Other Short Stories and Excerpts (1961) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
A Reader for Writers — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Twelve Great Modern Stories, A New Collection — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Dystopia Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition — Collaboratore — 1 copia
7 Novel Dystopian Collection — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Nome legale
- Lewis, Harry Sinclair
- Altri nomi
- Lewis, Red
Graham, Tom - Data di nascita
- 1885
- Data di morte
- 1951
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Greenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Rome, Italy
- Causa della morte
- advanced alcoholism
- Luogo di residenza
- Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Carmel, California, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
New York, New York, USA
Rome, Italy (mostra tutto 9)
Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Thorvale Farm, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
Barnard, Vermont, USA - Istruzione
- Oberlin Academy
Yale University (AB|1908) - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
playwright
sold fiction plots to novelist Jack London
ghostwriter
editor (mostra tutto 12)
reporter
advertising manager
actor
secretary
janitor
columnist - Relazioni
- Thompson, Dorothy (wife|divorced)
Lewis, Grace Hegger (wife|divorced)
Lewis, J. P. Sinclair (grandson)
Wharton, Edith (friend)
Acheson, Dean (friend)
Shirer, William L. (friend) (mostra tutto 8)
Kruif, Paul de (friend)
Jordan, Elizabeth Garver (editor) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1935)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (vice president)
Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, New Jersey
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California writers' colony
Transatlantic Tales, New York, New York (assistant editor)
Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa (reporter) (mostra tutto 14)
Associated Press, San Francisco (staff writer)
Volta Review, Washington, D.C. (staff member)
Frederick A. Stokes (publisher), New York, New York (manuscript reader)
Adventure, New York, New York (assistant editor)
Publisher's Newspaper Syndicate, New York, NY (editor)
George H. Doran (publisher), New York, NY (editorial assistant, advertising manager, and full-time writer)
Newsweek (columnist)
Esquire (columnist) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1930)
- Agente
- Edith Haggard
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Five star books (1)
Favourite Books (6)
Best Dystopias (1)
5 Best 5 Years (1)
Americans Abroad (1)
stories at work (1)
True Color (1)
Schwob Nederland (1)
Best Satire (1)
Midwestern Books (1)
discontinued (3)
Best First Lines (2)
1920s (4)
Actors (1)
Unread books (2)
AP Lit (2)
Out of Copyright (2)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 112
- Opere correlate
- 44
- Utenti
- 20,096
- Popolarità
- #1,079
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 422
- ISBN
- 919
- Lingue
- 21
- Preferito da
- 75
Oddly, I remembered none of this book as I read it for a third time. It was far more boring than I thought it would be. Things I expected were not present. I think that some memories come from [b:A Doll's House|37793|A Doll's House|Henrik Ibsen|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1660268136l/37793._SY75_.jpg|10535173], but I'm not sure. Given that my memory of the book and play stretches back more than forty years, it's inevitable that some memories will meld or change.
Main Street is well written. Lewis is a master at building and then tearing down characters with satire. (Sometimes he bats you about the face with it.) However, I think he's a better writer when he's criticizing society outright. So, I was a bit disappointed. I think his immaturity as a writer is displayed quite prominently when [b:Main Street|11376|Main Street|Sinclair Lewis|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1308953459l/11376._SY75_.jpg|18537748] is placed next to other books like [b:Arrowsmith|11389|Arrowsmith|Sinclair Lewis|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328006651l/11389._SY75_.jpg|1446230].
But, these are my foibles as an older person. I've noticed lately that I don't have the patience for young writers that I used to have. So, the rating stays the same as I gave it when I was in my teens and in my 20s.… (altro)