'''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. |