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This article presents a biography of author Sinclair Lewis. He was born Harry Sinclair Lewis on February 7, 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he is the third son of Doctor Edwin J. and Emma Kermott Lewis. In 1923 he collected material for Arrowsmith, writing novel in France and revising it in London, England. Lewis wrote no autobiography, though he reveals much about himself in his "From Main Street to Stockholm: Letters of Sinclair Lewis" in the essays and articles that he published throughout his life, and in various other letters collected by scholars. All of the scholars familiar to students of early twentieth-century literature, including B. L. Parrington, "Main Currents In American Thought," Malcolm Cowley, "After the Genteel Tradition," Herbert J. Muller, "Fiction: A Study of Values," Frederick Lewis Pattee, T. K. Whipple. Lewis has been seen as an American Diogines, as an emancipator of American fiction, as a rebel against older traditions, as in the American comic tradition, as superficial, as lacking in passion and thought and indulging in meretricious writing. |
