Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, a small town that would serve as the model for the fictional Gopher Prairie of his novel Main Street. After graduating from Yale in 1908, he worked as a journalist and editor before achieving literary fame with Main Street (1920), which became a sensation for its unflinching portrait of small-town American life. Babbitt followed in 1922, cementing his reputation as America's foremost social satirist. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Babbitt.