Harry Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, in 1885. His novel Main Street (1920) was a major commercial success, selling 180,000 copies in its first six months.
His other novels include Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929) and It Can't Happen Here (1935). He declined the Pulitzer Prize awarded for Arrowsmith, and in 1930 he became the first American, and the first person from the Americas, to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in Rome in 1951.
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