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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 was realist/modernist. He won the Pulitzer Prize (which he refused, claiming that the 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>"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 the [[Upton Sinclair]], 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>

By 1909 Lewis was at the [http://www.carmelcalifornia.com/index.cfm/carmel_artist_colony.htm artists' colony] in Carmel, California, along with his classmate William Rose Benét. Benet would be one of 50 "dupes and fellow travelers" featured by ''Life '' magazine attending the 1949 "Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace," hosted by the [[Communist-front]] National Council of Arts, Sciences, and Professions, "dominated by intellectuals who fellow-travel the [[Communist]] line," attended by delegates from [[USSR|Russia]], Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, and providing "a sounding board for Communist [[propaganda]]."<ref>"[http://books.google.com/books?id=U04EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q=&f=false Dupes and Fellow Travelers  Dress Up Communist Fronts]," ''Life'', vol. 26, No. 14, (April 4, 1949), p. 43</ref>

By 1909 Lewis was at the [http://www.carmelcalifornia.com/index.cfm/carmel_artist_colony.htm artists' colony] in Carmel, California, along with his classmate William Rose Benét. Benét would be one of 50 "dupes and fellow travelers" featured by ''Life '' magazine attending the 1949 "Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace," hosted by the [[Communist-front]] National Council of Arts, Sciences, and Professions, "dominated by intellectuals who [[fellow traveller|fellow-travel]] the [[Communist]] line," attended by delegates from [[USSR|Russia]], Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, and providing "a sounding board for Communist [[propaganda]]."<ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=U04EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q=&f=false Dupes and Fellow Travelers  Dress Up Communist Fronts]," ''Life'', vol. 26, No. 14, (April 4, 1949), p. 43</ref>

 

 

 

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