Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist and social critic. His most famous works include Main Street and Babbit.1
Works
Novels
- Hike and the Aeroplane (1912) as Tom Graham
- Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man (1914)
- The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life (1915)
- The Job: An American Novel (1917)
- The Innocents: A Story for Lovers (1917)
- Free Air (1919)
- Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott (1920)
- Babbitt (1922)
- Arrowsmith (1925)
- Mantrap (1926)
- Elmer Gantry (1927)
- The Man Who Knew Coolidge: Being the Soul of Lowell Schmaltz, Constructive and Nordic Citizen (1928)
- Dodsworth (1929)
- Ann Vickers (1933)
- Work of Art (1934)
- It Can’t Happen Here (1935)
- The Prodigal Parents (1938)
- Bethel Merriday (1940)
- Gideon Planish (1943)
- Harri (1943)
- Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives (1945)
- Kingsblood Royal (1947)
- The God-Seeker (1949)
- World So Wide (1951)
Story collections
- Selected Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1935)
- I’m a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories (1962)
- If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1997)
- The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis (2005)
- The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1904–1949) (2007)
Plays
- Hobohemia (1919)
- Jayhawker: A Play in Three Acts (1934)
- It Can’t Happen Here (1936)
- Angela Is Twenty-Two (1938)
Screenplays
- Storm in the West (1943)
Non-fiction
- Tennis As I Play It (1915) ghostwritten for Maurice McLoughlin
- Cheap and Contented Labor: The Picture of a Southern Mill Town in 1929 (1929)
- A Sinclair Lewis Reader: Selected Essays and Other Writings, 1904–1950 (1953)
- Sinclair Lewis: A Collection of Critical Essays (1962)
- Minnesota Diary, 1942–46 (2000)
- Go East, Young Man: Sinclair Lewis on Class in America (2005)
Letters
- From Main Street to Stockholm: Letters of Sinclair Lewis, 1919–1930 (1952)
- Selected Letters of Sinclair Lewis (1985)
See also
External Links
- The Sinclair Lewis Society
- Sinclair Lewis papers at Yale University
- Goodreads profile
- Internet Broadway Database profile
- IMDb profile
- NobelPrize.org profile
- Works on Faded Page
- Works on Internet Archive
- Works on LibriVox
- Works on Project Gutenberg
- Sinclair Lewis on Find A Grave
- Snopes – Did Sinclair Lewis Say This About Fascism in America?
References
1. “Sinclair Lewis.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed August 1, 2020.
