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'''Sinclair Lewis''' was an American novelist of the jazz age. His writing style was realist/modernist. He won the Pulitzer Prize (which he refused, claiming that that prizes awarded to authors stifled individuality) for his 1925 novel ''Arrowsmith'', then  in 1930 became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (which he accepted), for his 1922 novel ''[[Babbitt]]''. Lewis also wrote ''[http://www.answers.com/topic/elmer-gantry-criticism Elmer Gantry]'', the story of a corrupt and materialistic [[minister]], and ''[[It Can't Happen Here]]'', the story of an American fascist state.

'''Sinclair Lewis''' was an American novelist of the jazz age. His writing style was realist/modernist. He won the Pulitzer Prize (which he refused, claiming that that prizes awarded to authors stifled individuality) for his 1925 novel ''Arrowsmith'', then  in 1930 became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (which he accepted), for his 1922 novel ''[[Babbitt]]''. Lewis also wrote ''Main Street'', a satire of small-town ''petit-bourgeois'' America as dull, narrow-minded and hypocritical, ''[http://www.answers.com/topic/elmer-gantry-criticism Elmer Gantry]'', the story of a corrupt and materialistic [[minister]], and ''[[It Can't Happen Here]]'', a cautionary tale of the coming of fascism to the United States.

Lewis studied at [[Yale University]], becoming an [[atheist]]<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,881224,00.html Religion: Atheist's Oath]," ''Time'', August 20, 1928</ref> and "card-carrying [[socialist]]." He lived for a time at "a sort of [[commune]]" started  by [[Upton Sinclair]], the future Socialist Party candidate for governor of California. When [[Jack London]], the socialist candidate for mayor of Oakland, California, went to Yale to speak for socialism, Lewis met him.<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>

Lewis studied at [[Yale University]], becoming an [[atheist]]<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,881224,00.html Religion: Atheist's Oath]," ''Time'', August 20, 1928</ref> and "card-carrying [[socialist]]." He lived for a time at "a sort of [[commune]]" started  by [[Upton Sinclair]], the future Socialist Party candidate for governor of California. When [[Jack London]], the socialist candidate for mayor of Oakland, California, went to Yale to speak for socialism, Lewis met him.<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>