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'''Sinclair Lewis''' was an American novelist of the jazz age. His writing style is realist/modernist. He was won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel [[Arrowsmith]] which he refused claiming that the plethora of prizes awarded to authors were stifling individuality. He became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature with his novel [[Babbitt]] (which he accepted).  Lewis also wrote ''Elmer Gantry'', the story of a corrupt and materialistic [[minister]], and ''[[It Can't Happen Here]]'', the story of an American facist state.
 
'''Sinclair Lewis''' was an American novelist of the jazz age. His writing style is realist/modernist. He was won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel [[Arrowsmith]] which he refused claiming that the plethora of prizes awarded to authors were stifling individuality. He became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature with his novel [[Babbitt]] (which he accepted).  Lewis also wrote ''Elmer Gantry'', the story of a corrupt and materialistic [[minister]], and ''[[It Can't Happen Here]]'', the story of an American facist state.
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Lewis was a "card-carrying socialist."<ref>Gore Vidal, "[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2805 The Romance of Sinclair Lewis]," ''The New York Review of Books'', Vol. 39, No. 16 (October 8, 1992)</ref>
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