Sinclair Lewis

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

• Sinclair Lewis quotes

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.