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Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."
Sinclair Lewis and Thompson during their honeymoon caravan trip in England, 1928. Thompson boarded a ship to London in June 1920 to become a foreign correspondent. Beginning by submitting articles to the International News Service (INS), she went to Ireland in August and was the last to interview the Sinn Féin Irish independence leader Terence MacSwiney.
It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by the American author Sinclair Lewis. [1] Set in a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States, it follows an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator (in allusion to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany), and Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor ...
The Man Who Knew Coolidge is a 1928 satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis. It features the return of several characters from Lewis' previous works, including George Babbitt and Elmer Gantry . Additionally, it sees a return to the familiar territory of Lewis' fictional American city of Zenith, in the state of Winnemac.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Four trials for her murder were held, with a 33-year-old man being acquitted of it at the end of the last one. The number of days covered by the trials (63 in total) caused the case to make legal history in Britain. [9] [10] 22 February 1974 Rosina Hilliard Leicester Hit by a car, head injuries, strangulation It is not known which injury killed ...
Access to news on the new domain name was supplied free of charge, [59] but a subscription was charged to view its archives. On 15 October 2012 John O'Shea, Head of Online, The Irish Times, announced that the ireland.com domain name had been sold to Tourism Ireland, and that the associated ireland.com email service would end on 7 November 2012 ...
The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920–1930. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1996. [full citation needed] Lingeman, Richard R. Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-87351-541-2. [full citation needed] Schorer, Mark Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, 1961, McGraw-Hill. OCLC 288825.