Novelist Sinclair Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis

Living place: Minnesota

Birthday: 7-2-1885

Global rank: #28787

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Who is Novelist Sinclair Lewis?
Fiction writer who explored the themes of materialism and capitalism in America and is best known for his 1920 work, Main Street. For his 1925 novel, Arrowsmith, he was offered the Pulitzer Prize (which he refused to accept); The work was later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film.
He was the 1930 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first American to receive this honor.

Young / Before famous

At the age of thirteen, he tried unsuccessfully to run out of the house and serve as a boy drummer in Spanish-American. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1908.

Family life info

He married Vogue editor, Grace Livingston Hegger, in 1914. The couple's son, Wells died fighting in World War II. With his second wife, journalist Dorothy Thompson, Lewis had a son, Michael.

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American author John Steinbeck also won a Nobel Prize for his literary work.

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When was Novelist Sinclair Lewis born?
Sinclair Lewis was born in 7-2-1885, death year is , at the age of 139.
Where is Novelist Sinclair Lewis's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Sinclair Lewis was born in Minnesota, . Là Novelist, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Sinclair Lewis's global rank is 28787 and whose rank is 131 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1885 and 7-2

Birthday Sinclair Lewis (7-2) in history

  • Day 7-2 year 1795: The 11th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.
  • Day 7-2 year 1904: Disastrous fire destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in downtown Baltimore.
  • Day 7-2 year 1926: Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, which later evolved into Black History Month.
  • Day 7-2 year 1964: The Beatles arrived in the U.S. for the first time.
  • Day 7-2 year 1971: Women in Switzerland were finally granted suffrage.
  • Day 7-2 year 1974: The island of Grenada won its independence from Britain
  • Day 7-2 year 1986: President Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier fled Haiti.
  • Day 7-2 year 1990: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union allowed other parties to compete for power.
  • Day 7-2 year 1991: Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as first democratically-elected president of Haiti.
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