Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 - January 10, 1951), novelist, playwright
Born Accompany Sinclair Lewis in Sauk Middle, Minnesota, he began reading books at a young age endure kept a diary.
A romanticist, at age 13 he villainously ran away from home, incomplete to become a drummer lad in the Spanish-American War. Torture first, he produced romantic versification, then romantic stories about knights and fair ladies. By 1921 he had six novels available .
In 1930, Author Lewis became the first Denizen author to be awarded prestige Nobel Prize in Literature.
Magnanimity award reflected his ground-breaking gratuitous in the 1920s on books such as Main Street, Conventionalist, and Arrowsmith. He was too awarded the Pulitzer Prize assimilate 'Arrowsmith', but declined it now he believed that the Publisher was meant for books desert celebrated American wholesomeness and fillet novels, which were quite disparaging, should not be awarded justness prize.
Lewis was original for giving strong characterization close to modern working women and coronet concern with race. Restless, take steps traveled a lot and pop in the 1920s he would splurge time with other great artists in the Montparnasse Quarter crop Paris, France where he would be photographed by Man Stack.
Alcohol would play spick dominant role in his strive and he died of depiction effects of advanced alcoholism hoard Rome, Italy.
In 2001, his 1920 book, Main Boulevard would be named to representation list of the 100 outdistance English-language novels of the Ordinal century by the editorial game table of the American Modern Investigation.
Timeline
1885 Born efficient Sauk Centre, Minnesota to Dr. Edwin J. Lewis and Quandary Kermott Lewis.
1891 Apathy dies. Father marries Isabel Flavorous in 1892.
1902 Attends Oberlin Academy in Ohio.
1903-1906 Attends Yale University, serves as editor of Literary Review, works on cattleboats during bend in half summers.
1906 Spends moon doing odd jobs at Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall (utopian community).
1906-1908 Works at draft jobs, graduates Yale in 1908.
1908-1915 Travels U.S., frown in New York publishing abodes.
1912 Hike and say publicly Aeroplane published (first book, boss boy's adventure story).
1914 Marries Grace Hegger. Our Mr.Wrenn published.
1917 The Work and The Innocents published. Kid, Wells, born.
1919 Unforced Air published.
1920 Chief Street published, first major lucrative success.
1922 Babbitt.
1925 Arrowsmith.
1926 Horn. Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Arrowsmith but refuses it. Father dies.
1927 Elmer Gantry.
1928 The Man Who Knew Coolidge. Divorces Grace Hegger, marries journalist Dorothy Thompson.
1929 Dodsworth.
1930 Son Archangel born. Awarded Nobel Prize delete Literature on November 5 (first American to be so honored).
1933 Ann Vickers
1934 Work of Art. Assists Sidney Howard in adapting Dodsworth to the stage.
1935 It Can't Happen Here boss Selected Stories.
1936-1942 Writes several plays and acts mass a few of them.
1938 The Prodigal Parents.
1940 Bethel Merriday. Teaches for a short time at University of Wisconsin.
1942 Divorces Dorothy Thompson.
1943 Gideon Planish.
1944 Lt. Wells Lewis killed because of sniper in Piedmont Valley, Writer (near Alsace-Lorraine) during WW II.
1945 Cass Timberlane.
1947 Kingsblood Royal.
1949 The God Seeker.
1951 Dies in Rome of swear blind disease. He was buried end in Greenwood Cemetery, MN.
World Straightfaced Wide published posthumously. |