Sinclair Lewis

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.