Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, who became the first U.S. author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930 for his vigorous and graphic art of description and ability to create new types of characters with wit and humor. His satirical novels, including Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), and Elmer Gantry (1927), critiqued American society, business, medicine, religion, and small-town life. He traveled widely, struggled with alcoholism in later years, and died near Rome, Italy, in 1951.

Sauk Centre, Minnesota, U.S. Feb 7, 1885 Wikipedia
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