SINCLE

R LEWIS
 HIS LIFE
• Harry Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and graduated from Yale
University.
• He took time off from school to work at a socialist community, Helicon Home Colony,
financed by muckraking novelist Upton Sinclair.
• American novelist and playwright whose work expressed the lack of spirituality of the
average American man.
• His first famous novel was the satirical “Main Street” which divided the opinions of critics.
• Author of the famous novel Babbitt, he was the first American Nobel in 1930.
• Sinclair Lewis died of advanced alcoholism on January 10 - 1951 in Rome; his remains
were repatriated and buried in his hometown.
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
• His novels are a satire of the bourgeoisie and its mercantile
and religious concerns.
• After Babbitt he published two other novels: Human Trap
(1926) and Elmer Gantry (1927)
• In 1928 he released The Man Who Knew Coolidge,
Dodsworth (1929), Work of art (1934), I Can’t Happen Here
(1936), Arrowsmith in 1925 and finaly in 1951 World so
wide The novel was published posthumously
 ABOUT BABBIT

• Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about

American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of
middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The
controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision
to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930.