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Picture of Sinclair Lewis, author of Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Dodsworth; novelist, playwright / dramatist, and social critic; twentieth century American Literature


 
November 5, 1930
Sinclair Lewis   (1885 - 1951)
 
Sinclair Lewis's Nobel No Joke
 
by Steve King

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On this day in 1930, Sinclair Lewis received notice that he had won the Nobel Prize. Lewis had written five major novels over the previous decade -- Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry and Dodsworth -- but many peers and critics went on record with their preference for Pound or Joyce, or if it was America's turn, Willa Cather, Eugene O'Neill or Theodore Dreiser.
 
 
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