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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

PITTSFIELD — Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature fixed the fame of a writer from Minnesota — and no, we're not talking about Duluth native Bob Dylan. Eighty-seven years before Dylan grudgingly ...

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, ...

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 ...