Elmer Gantry

Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Born Harry Sinclair Lewis in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, in recognition of his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. A graduate of Yale University, Lewis worked ...