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Lewis Sinclair 1885 - 1951 (66)

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.


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Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951) was an American author, one of the most famous in the first half of the 20th century; he was the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1930). Born in Minnesota on February 7, 1885 to a wealthy family, his father was a physician.

He studied at Yale University, traveled and lived in various cities in the United States, and worked, among other things, in publishing houses in New York. He mainly wrote prose, but also poetry and plays. In 1920 he published the novel Main Street with which he became famous and since then he wrote many best-selling books such as Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), It Can't Happen Here, (1935). He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 but he didn't accept it. The culmination of his recognition came in 1930, when the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Lewis had two marriages and had two sons, the eldest was killed in 1944 in a battle of World War II in France. He died a few years later, on January 10, 1951 in Rome.