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No brakes; a new biography of Sinclair Lewis.('Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street')
What has Sinclair Lewis done lately to deserve a new, five-hundred-and-fifty-four-page (plus notes and index) biography, "Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street," by Richard Lingeman (Random House; $35)? Mark Schorer's even bigger biography of forty years ago, "Sinclair Lewis: An American Life," would seem to have closed the case, at least until Lewis's reputation -- stuck in a slot below that of Theodore Dreiser, whose clumsy naturalism attained in at least two novels a tender, awed sense of tragedy that Lewis's satires never mustered, and above that of Upton Sinclair, the remorselessly prolific idealist with whom Lewis was frequently, to his disadvantage, confused -- ...
- Works of Sinclair Lewis: Bibliography And Guide To Research
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Lewis, Sinclair January 1, 1963 700+ words
...there is no definitive edition of Sinclair Lewis' works, his novels are currently...critical books and articles on Sinclair Lewis and his work. The following is...research topics. However, since Sinclair Lewis was a comparatively recent novelist...
- Silly Babbitt.("Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street")
- Magazine article from: National Review TEACHOUT, TERRY March 11, 2002 700+ words
Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street, by Richard...latter act upon the sodden corpse of Sinclair Lewis by publishing an 867-page autopsy...Elegantly written but seemingly endless, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life was the first of...
- Works of Sinclair Lewis: Essay Questions and Bibliography
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Lewis, Sinclair January 1, 1963 700+ words
...and family life. 2. What was Sinclair Lewis' attitude toward George F. Babbitt? Answer: Although in Babbitt Sinclair Lewis often violently satirized George...some of the major targets for Sinclair Lewis' satire in Babbitt? Answer...
- SINCLAIR LEWIS' HOMECOMING.(VARIETY)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Oakes, Larry January 7, 2001 700+ words
...Minnesota when it behaves." - Sinclair Lewis, Aug. 3, 1942 Books like...left a lingering impression that Sinclair Lewis was always blaringly critical...depicted in the 1961 biography "Sinclair Lewis: An American Life" by Mark Schorer...
- Still Gopher Prairie - kind of; Sauk Centre: Sinclair Lewis left his mark here,...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Medcalf, Myron P. July 15, 2005 700+ words
...summer visitors to everything Sinclair Lewis, the hometown author who became...s Nobel Prize as part of the Sinclair Lewis Conference, which ends today...Thursday: "Growing up Main Street - Sinclair Lewis: Our SOB." `Gopher Prairie...
- BIOGRAPHY; Master from Main Street; A nuanced bio of Sinclair Lewis revisits...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Miller, Roger K. January 20, 2002 700+ words
...hardly pick up a paperback of a Sinclair Lewis novel without finding somewhere...more favorable new biography, "Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Main Street," may...Minn., where he was born Harry Sinclair Lewis on Feb. 7, 1885. Lewis was...
- Sinclair Lewis
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1937 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1937 Sinclair Lewis American writer Sinclair Lewis sits sullenly for a portrait. The dominant...dramatists. novelists. American writer Sinclair Lewis sits sullenly for a portrait. The dominant...
- A REFRESHER COURSE IN SINCLAIR LEWIS.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) January 25, 2002 700+ words
Byline: William Dieter Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Main Street By Richard...that a friend once remarked that Sinclair Lewis looked like ``he had a fire...important and intriguing read. Harry Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre...
