Sinclair Lewis was born in San Centre, Minnesota on February 7, 1885. He went to Oberlin Academy and Yale University
As the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature (1930), Sinclair Lewis holds a unique position in the pantheon of literary greats. Though he began his career as a reporter, he eventually turned to fiction. Main Street and Babbitt brought him significant recognition (1920 and 1922, respectively) but Lewis refused the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Arrowsmith in 1925.
Elmer Gantry (1927) is regarded as Lewis' finest work. In all, Lewis wrote nearly two dozen novels and three plays.
The following are his books: 1912: Hike and the Aeroplane (juvenile, as Tom Graham) 1914: Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man 1915: The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life 1917: The Job: An American Novel 1917: The Innocents: A Story for Lovers 1919: Free Air Serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, May 31, June 7, June 14 and 21, 1919 1920: Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott 1922: Babbitt Excerpted in Hearst's International, October 1922 1925: Arrowsmith 1926: Mantrap Serialized in Collier's, February 20, March 20 and April 24, 1926 1927: Elmer Gantry 1928: The Man Who Knew Coolidge: Being the Soul of Lowell Schmaltz, Constructive and Nordic Citizen'' 1929: Dodsworth 1933: Ann Vickers Serialized in Redbook, August, November and December 1932 1934: Work of Art 1935: It Can't Happen Here 1938: The Prodigal Parents 1940: Bethel Merriday 1943: Gideon Planish 1943: Harri serialized in Good Housekeeping, August, September 1943 ISBN 978-1523653508 1945: Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives Appeared in Cosmopolitan, July 1945.
1947: Kingsblood Royal 1949: The God-Seeker 1951: World So Wide (posthumous