Lewis was born on Feb. 7, 1885, in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. He was the youngest of three boys. Their father, Edwin J. Lewis, was the small town’s doctor; their mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died when ...
Exile from Main Street: A Portrait of Sinclair Lewis-a one-man play celebrating the influential author known for his satirical and humorous critiques of society and human nature-will be performed for ...
In “Main Street,” Sinclair Lewis wrote an unflattering portrayal of small-town America. Gopher Prairie is smug and peopled by philistines. The designation “Main Street” served as a metaphor for middle ...
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“On Main Street” (Jan. 2) is a welcome reminder of Sinclair Lewis’s life and literary achievement. Disappointing, though, is Robert Gottlieb’s treatment of “Kingsblood Royal,” offered as an example of ...
Internet memes purporting to quote a statement by 20th-century novelist Sinclair Lewis about fascism coming to America have circulated more or less continuously since the mid-2000s, even though there ...