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.
