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Sinclair Lewis. Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer 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." His works are known for their critical views of American capitalism and materialism in the interwar period. [1] He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H. L. Mencken wrote of him, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade . it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." [2] Childhood and education. Born February 7, 1885, in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. He had two older siblings, Fred (born 1875) and Claude (born 1878). His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and a stern disciplinarian who had difficulty relating to his sensitive, unathletic third son. Lewis's mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died in 1891. The following year, Edwin Lewis married Isabel Warner, whose company young Lewis apparently enjoyed. Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis—tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed—had trouble making friends and pined after various local girls. At the age of 13, he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish–American War. [3] In late 1902, Lewis left home for a year at Oberlin Academy (the then-preparatory department of Oberlin College) to qualify for acceptance at Yale University. While at Oberlin, he developed a religious enthusiasm that waxed and waned for much of his remaining teenage years. He entered Yale in 1903, but did not receive his bachelor's degree until 1908, having taken time off to work at Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair's cooperative-living colony in Englewood, New Jersey, and to travel to Panama. Lewis's unprepossessing looks, "fresh" country manners and seemingly self-important loquacity made it difficult for him to win and keep friends at Oberlin and Yale. He did initiate a few relatively long-lived friendships among students and professors, some of whom recognized his promise as a writer. [4] Lewis later became an atheist. [5] Early career. Lewis's earliest published creative work—romantic poetry and short sketches—appeared in the Yale Courant and the Yale Literary Magazine , of which he became an editor. After graduation Lewis moved from job to job and from place to place in an effort to make ends meet, writing fiction for publication and to chase away boredom. While working for newspapers and publishing houses (and for a time at the Carmel-by-the-Sea, California writers' colony), he developed a facility for turning out shallow, popular stories that were purchased by a variety of magazines. He also earned money by selling plots to Jack London, including one for the latter's unfinished novel The Assassination Bureau, Ltd . Lewis's first published book was Hike and the Aeroplane , a Tom Swift-style potboiler that appeared in 1912 under the pseudonym Tom Graham. Sinclair Lewis's first serious novel, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man , appeared in 1914, followed by The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life (1915) and The Job (1917). That same year also saw the publication of another potboiler, The Innocents: A Story for Lovers , an expanded version of a serial story that had originally appeared in Woman's Home Companion . Free Air , another refurbished serial story, was published in 1919. Marriage and family. In 1914 Lewis married Grace Livingston Hegger (1887–1981), an editor at Vogue magazine. They had one son, Wells Lewis (1917–1944), named after British author H. G. Wells. Serving as a U.S. Army lieutenant during World War II, Wells Lewis was killed in action on October 29 amid Allied efforts to rescue the "Lost Battalion" in France. [6] [7] Dean Acheson, the future Secretary of State, was a neighbor and family friend in Washington, and observed that Sinclair's literary "success was not good for that marriage, or for either of the parties to it, or for Lewis's work" and the family moved out of town. [8] Lewis divorced Grace on April 16, 1925. [9] On May 14, 1928, he married Dorothy Thompson, a political newspaper columnist. Later in 1928, he and Dorothy purchased a second home in rural Vermont. [10] They had a son, Michael Lewis (1930-1975), who became a stage actor. Their marriage had virtually ended by 1937, and they divorced in 1942. [11] Commercial success. Upon moving to Washington, D.C., Lewis devoted himself to writing. As early as 1916, he began taking notes for a realistic novel about small- town life. Work on that novel continued through mid-1920, when he completed Main Street , which was published on October 23, 1920. [12] His biographer Mark Schorer wrote that the phenomenal success of Main Street "was the most sensational event in twentieth-century American publishing history". [13] Lewis's agent had the most optimistic projection of sales at 25,000 copies. In its first six months, Main Street sold 180,000 copies, [14] and within a few years, sales were estimated at two million. [15] According to biographer Richard Lingeman, " Main Street made [Lewis] rich—earning him about 4 million current [2018] dollars". [16] Lewis followed up this first great success with Babbitt (1922), a novel that satirized the American commercial culture and boosterism. The story was set in the fictional Midwestern town of Zenith, Winnemac, a setting to which Lewis returned in future novels, including Gideon Planish and Dodsworth . Lewis continued his success in the 1920s with Arrowsmith (1925), a novel about the challenges faced by an idealistic doctor. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, which Lewis declined, [17] still upset that Main Street had not won the prize. [18] It was adapted as a 1931 Hollywood film directed by John Ford and starring Ronald Colman which was nominated for four Academy Awards. Next Lewis published Elmer Gantry (1927), which depicted an evangelical minister as deeply hypocritical. The novel was denounced by many religious leaders and banned in some U.S. cities. It was adapted for the screen more than a generation later as the basis of the 1960 movie starring Burt Lancaster, who earned a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in the title role. The film won two more awards as well. Lewis next published Dodsworth (1929), a novel about the most affluent and successful members of American society. He portrayed them as leading essentially pointless lives in spite of great wealth and advantages. The book was adapted for the Broadway stage in 1934 by Sidney Howard, who also wrote the screenplay for the 1936 film version directed by William Wyler, which was a great success at the time. The film is still highly regarded; in 1990, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry, and in 2005 Time magazine named it one of the "100 Best Movies" of the past 80 years. [19] During the late 1920s and 1930s, Lewis wrote many short stories for a variety of magazines and publications. "Little Bear Bongo" (1930) is a tale about a bear cub who wants to escape the circus in search of a better life in the real world, first published in Cosmopolitan magazine. [20] [21] The story was acquired by Walt Disney Pictures in 1940 for a possible feature film. World War II sidetracked those plans until 1947. Disney used the story (now titled "Bongo") as part of its feature Fun and Fancy Free . Nobel Prize. In 1930 Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from the United States to receive the award, after he had been nominated by Henrik Schück, member of the Swedish Academy. [22] In the Academy's presentation speech, special attention was paid to Babbitt . In his Nobel Lecture, Lewis praised Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and other contemporaries, but also lamented that "in America most of us—not readers alone, but even writers—are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues," and that America is "the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any land in the world today." He also offered a profound criticism of the American literary establishment: "Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead." [23] Later years. After winning the Nobel Prize, Lewis wrote eleven more novels, ten of which appeared in his lifetime. The best remembered is It Can't Happen Here (1935), a novel about the election of a fascist to the American presidency. After praising Dreiser as "pioneering," that he "more than any other man, marching alone, usually unappreciated, often hated, has cleared the trail from Victorian and Howellsian timidity and gentility in American fiction to honesty and boldness and passion of life" in his Nobel Lecture in December 1930, [23] in March 1931 Lewis publicly accused Dreiser of plagiarizing a book by Dorothy Thompson, Lewis's wife, which led to a well-publicized fight, wherein Dreiser repeatedly slapped Lewis. Thompson initially made the accusation in 1928 regarding her work "The New Russia" and Dreiser's "Dreiser Goes to Russia", though the New York Times also linked the dispute to competition between Dreiser and Lewis over the Nobel Prize. [24] [25] Dreiser fired back that Sinclair's 1928 novel Arrowsmith (adapted later that year as a feature film) was unoriginal and that Dreiser himself was first approached to write it, which was disputed by the wife of Arrowsmith 's subject, microbiologist Dr. Paul de Kruif. [26] [25] The feud carried on for some months. [27] In 1944, however, Lewis campaigned to have Dreiser recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. [25] After an alcoholic binge in 1937, Lewis checked in for treatment to the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. His doctors gave him a blunt assessment that he needed to decide "whether he was going to live without alcohol or die by it, one or the other." [28] Lewis checked out after ten days, lacking any "fundamental understanding of his problem," as one of his physicians wrote to a colleague. [28] In the autumn of 1940, Lewis visited his old acquaintance, William Ellery Leonard, in Madison, Wisconsin. Leonard arranged a meeting with the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a tour of the campus. Lewis immediately became enthralled with the university and the city and offered to remain and teach a course in creative writing in the upcoming semester. For a month he was quite enamored of his professorial role. [29] Suddenly, on November 7, after giving only five classes to his select group of 24 students, he announced that he had taught them all that he knew. He left Madison the next day. [30] In the 1940s, Lewis and rabbi-turned-popular author Lewis Browne frequently appeared on the lecture platform together, [31] touring the United States and debating before audiences of as many as 3,000 people, addressing such questions as "Has the Modern Woman Made Good?", "The Country Versus the City", "Is the Machine Age Wrecking Civilization?", and "Can Fascism Happen Here?". The pair were described as "the Gallagher and Shean of the lecture circuit" by Lewis biographer Richard Lingeman. [32] In the early 1940s, Lewis lived in Duluth, Minnesota. [33] During this time, he wrote the novel Kingsblood Royal (1947), set in the fictional city of Grand Republic, Minnesota, an enlarged and updated version of Zenith. [33] It is based on the Sweet Trials in Detroit in which an African- American doctor was denied the chance to purchase a house in a "white" section of the city. Kingsblood Royal was a powerful and very early contribution to the civil rights movement. In 1943, Lewis went to Hollywood to work on a script with Dore Schary, who had just resigned as executive head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's low-budget film department to concentrate on writing and producing his own films. The resulting screenplay was Storm In the West , "a traditional American western" [34] — except for the fact that it was also an allegory of World War II, with primary villain Hygatt (Hitler) and his henchmen Gribbles (Goebbels) and Gerrett (Goering) plotting to take over the Franson Ranch, the Poling Ranch, and so on. The screenplay was deemed too political by MGM studio executives and was shelved, and the film was never made. Storm In the West was finally published in 1963, with a foreword by Schary detailing the work's origins, the authors' creative process, and the screenplay's ultimate fate. Sinclair Lewis had been a frequent visitor to Williamstown, Massachusetts. In 1946, he rented Thorvale Farm on Oblong Road. While working on his novel Kingsblood Royal , he purchased this summer estate and upgraded the Georgian mansion along with a farmhouse and many outbuildings. By 1948, Lewis had created a gentleman's farm consisting of 720 acres (290 ha) of agricultural and forest land. His intended residence in Williamstown was short-lived because of his medical problems. [35] Death. Lewis died in Rome from advanced alcoholism on January 10, 1951, aged 65. His body was cremated and his remains were buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. His final novel World So Wide (1951) was published posthumously. William Shirer, a friend and admirer of Lewis, disputes accounts that Lewis died of alcoholism. He reported that Lewis had a heart attack and that his doctors advised him to stop drinking if he wanted to live. Lewis did not stop, and perhaps could not; he died when his heart stopped. [36] In summarizing Lewis's career, Shirer concludes: [36] It has become rather commonplace for so-called literary critics to write off Sinclair Lewis as a novelist. Compared to. Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Faulkner. Lewis lacked style. Yet his impact on modern American life. was greater than all of the other four writers together. Legacy. Compared to his contemporaries, Lewis' reputation suffered a precipitous decline among literary scholars throughout the 20th century. [37] Despite his enormous popularity during the 1920s, by the 21st century most of his works had been eclipsed in prominence by other writers with less commercial success during the same time period, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. [38] Since the 2010s there has been renewed interest in Lewis' work, in particular his 1935 dystopian satire It Can't Happen Here . In the aftermath of the 2016 United States presidential election, It Can't Happen Here surged to the top of Amazon's list of best-selling books. [39] Scholars have found eerie parallels in his novels to the COVID-19 crisis, [40] and to the rise of Donald Trump. [41] Your IP Address in Germany is Blocked from www.gutenberg.org. We apologize for this inconvenience. Your IP address has been automatically blocked from accessing the Project Gutenberg website, www.gutenberg.org. This is because the geoIP database shows your address is in the country of Germany. Diagnostic information: Blocked at germany.shtml Your IP address: 116.202.236.252 Referrer URL (if available): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/543/543-h/543-h.htm Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_0) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.79 Safari/537.4 Date: Friday, 18-Jun-2021 21:33:40 GMT. Why did this block occur? 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Harry Sinclair Lewis ( / ˈ l uː ɪ s / ; February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States 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." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. [1] He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H. L. Mencken wrote of him, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade . it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." [2] Contents. Childhood and education. Born February 7, 1885, in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. He had two siblings, Fred (born 1875) and Claude (born 1878). His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and a stern disciplinarian who had difficulty relating to his sensitive, unathletic third son. Lewis's mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died in 1891. The following year, Edwin Lewis married Isabel Warner, whose company young Lewis apparently enjoyed. Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis—tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed—had trouble gaining friends and pined after various local girls. At the age of 13 he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish–American War. [3] In late 1902 Lewis left home for a year at Oberlin Academy (the then-preparatory department of Oberlin College) to qualify for acceptance by Yale University. While at Oberlin, he developed a religious enthusiasm that waxed and waned for much of his remaining teenage years. He entered Yale in 1903 but did not receive his bachelor's degree until 1908, having taken time off to work at Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair's cooperative-living colony in Englewood, New Jersey, and to travel to Panama. Lewis's unprepossessing looks, "fresh" country manners and seemingly self-important loquacity made it difficult for him to win and keep friends at Oberlin and Yale. He did initiate a few relatively long-lived friendships among students and professors, some of whom recognized his promise as a writer. [4] Early career. Lewis's earliest published creative work—romantic poetry and short sketches—appeared in the Yale Courant and the Yale Literary Magazine , of which he became an editor. After graduation Lewis moved from job to job and from place to place in an effort to make ends meet, write fiction for publication and to chase away boredom. While working for newspapers and publishing houses (and for a time at the Carmel-by-the-Sea, California writers' colony), he developed a facility for turning out shallow, popular stories that were purchased by a variety of magazines. He also earned money by selling plots to Jack London, including one for the latter's unfinished novel The Assassination Bureau, Ltd . Lewis's first published book was Hike and the Aeroplane , a Tom Swift-style potboiler that appeared in 1912 under the pseudonym Tom Graham. Sinclair Lewis's first serious novel, Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man , appeared in 1914, followed by The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life (1915) and The Job (1917). That same year also saw the publication of another potboiler, The Innocents: A Story for Lovers , an expanded version of a serial story that had originally appeared in Woman's Home Companion . Free Air , another refurbished serial story, was published in 1919. Marriage and family. In 1914 Lewis married Grace Livingston Hegger (1887–1981), an editor at Vogue magazine. They had one son, Wells Lewis (1917–1944), named after British author H. G. Wells. Wells Lewis was killed in action while serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, specifically during the rescue of "The Lost Battalion" in the Forêt de Champ, near Germany, in France. [ citation needed ] Dean Acheson, the future Secretary of State, was a neighbor and family friend in Washington, and observed that Sinclair's literary "success was not good for that marriage, or for either of the parties to it, or for Lewis's work" and the family moved out of town. [5] Lewis divorced Grace in 1925. On May 14, 1928, he married Dorothy Thompson, a political newspaper columnist. Later in 1928, he and Dorothy purchased a second home in rural Vermont. [6] They had a son, Michael Lewis, in 1930. Their marriage had virtually ended by 1937, and they divorced in 1942. Michael Lewis became an actor, also suffered with alcoholism, and died in 1975 of Hodgkin's lymphoma. Michael had two sons, John Paul and Gregory Claude, with wife Bernadette Nanse and a daughter Lesley with wife Valerie Cardew. Commercial success. Upon moving to Washington, D.C., Lewis devoted himself to writing. As early as 1916, he began taking notes for a realistic novel about small- town life. Work on that novel continued through mid-1920, when he completed Main Street , which was published on October 23, 1920. [7] As his biographer Mark Schorer wrote, the phenomenal success of Main Street "was the most sensational event in twentieth-century American publishing history." [8] Lewis's agent had the most optimistic projection of sales at 25,000 copies. In its first six months, Main Street sold 180,000 copies, [9] and within a few years, sales were estimated at two million. [10] According to biographer Richard Lingeman, " Main Street made [Lewis] rich—earning him perhaps three million current [2005] dollars". [11] Lewis followed up this first great success with Babbitt (1922), a novel that satirized the American commercial culture and boosterism. The story was set in the fictional Midwestern town of Zenith, Winnemac, a setting to which Lewis would return in future novels, including Gideon Planish and Dodsworth . Lewis continued his success in the 1920s with Arrowsmith (1925), a novel about the challenges faced by an idealistic doctor. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, which Lewis declined. [12] Adapted as a 1931 Hollywood film directed by John Ford and starring Ronald Colman, it was nominated for four Academy Awards. Next Lewis published Elmer Gantry (1927), which depicted an evangelical minister as deeply hypocritical. The novel was denounced by many religious leaders and banned in some U.S. cities. Adapted for the screen more than a generation later, the novel was the basis of the 1960 movie starring Burt Lancaster, who earned a Best Actor Oscar for his performance. Lewis next published Dodsworth (1929), a novel about the most affluent and successful members of American society. He portrayed them as leading essentially pointless lives in spite of great wealth and advantages. The book was adapted for the Broadway stage in 1934 by Sidney Howard, who also wrote the screenplay for the 1936 film version. Directed by William Wyler and a great success at the time, the film is still highly regarded. In 1990, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, and in 2005 Time magazine named it one of the "100 Best Movies" of the past 80 years. [13] During the late 1920s and 1930s, Lewis wrote many short stories for a variety of magazines and publications. "Little Bear Bongo" (1930), a tale about a bear cub who wanted to escape the circus in search of a better life in the real world, was published in Cosmopolitan magazine. [14] [15] The story was acquired by Walt Disney Pictures in 1940 for a possible feature film. World War II sidetracked those plans until 1947. Disney used the story (now titled "Bongo") as part of its feature Fun and Fancy Free . Nobel Prize. In 1930, Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from the United States to receive the award, after he had been nominated by Henrik Schück, member of the Swedish Academy. [16] In the Academy's presentation speech, special attention was paid to Babbitt . In his Nobel Lecture, Lewis praised Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and other contemporaries, but also lamented that "in America most of us—not readers alone, but even writers—are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues," and that America is "the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any land in the world today." He also offered a profound criticism of the American literary establishment: "Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead." [17] Later years. After winning the Nobel Prize, Lewis wrote eleven more novels, ten of which appeared in his lifetime. The best remembered is It Can't Happen Here (1935), a novel about the election of a fascist to the American presidency. After an alcoholic binge in 1937, Lewis checked into the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, for treatment. His doctors gave Lewis a blunt assessment that he needed to decide "whether he was going to live without alcohol or die by it, one or the other." [18] Lewis checked out after ten days, lacking, one of his physicians wrote to a colleague, any "fundamental understanding of his problem." [18] In the 1940s, Lewis and rabbi-turned-popular author Lewis Browne frequently appeared on the lecture platform together, [19] touring the United States and debating such questions as "Has the Modern Woman Made Good?", "The Country Versus the City", "Is the Machine Age Wrecking Civilization?" and "Can Fascism Happen Here?" before audiences of as many as 3,000 people. The pair was described as "the Gallagher and Shean of the lecture circuit" by Lewis biographer Richard Lingeman. [20] The novel Kingsblood Royal (1947) is set in the fictional city Grand Republic, Minnesota, an enlarged and updated version of Zenith. Based on the Sweet Trials in Detroit, in which an African-American doctor was denied the chance to purchase a house in a "white" section of the city, Kingsblood Royal was a powerful and very early contribution to the civil rights movement. In 1946, Sinclair Lewis who had been a frequent visitor to Williamstown, Massachusetts, rented Thorvale Farm on Oblong Road. While working on his novel, Kings Blood Royal , he purchased this summer estate and upgraded the Georgian mansion along with a farmhouse and many outbuildings. By 1948 Lewis had created a gentleman’s farm consisting of 720 acres of agricultural and forest land. His intended residence in Williamstown was short-lived because of his medical problems. [21] Lewis died in Rome on January 10, 1951, aged 65, from advanced alcoholism. His body was cremated and his remains were buried in Sauk Centre. A final novel, World So Wide (1951), was published posthumously. William Shirer, a friend and admirer of Lewis, disputes accounts that Lewis died of alcoholism per se . He reported that Lewis had a heart attack and that his doctors advised him to stop drinking if he wanted to live. Lewis did not, and perhaps could not, stop; he died when his heart stopped. [22] In summing up Lewis' career, Shirer concludes: [22] It has become rather commonplace for so-called literary critics to write off Sinclair Lewis as a novelist. Compared to . Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Faulkner . Lewis lacked style. Yet his impact on modern American life . was greater than all of the other four writers together. Works. Novels. 1912: Hike and the Aeroplane (juvenile, as Tom Graham) 1914: Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man 1915: The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life 1917: The Job: An American Novel 1917: The Innocents: A Story for Lovers 1919: Free Air Serialized in The Saturday Evening Post , May 31, June 7, June 14 and 21, 1919 1920: Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott 1922: Babbitt Excerpted in Hearst's International , October 1922 1925: Arrowsmith 1926: Mantrap Serialized in Collier's , February 20, March 20 and April 24, 1926 1927: Elmer Gantry 1928: The Man Who Knew Coolidge: Being the Soul of Lowell Schmaltz, Constructive and Nordic Citizen 1929: Dodsworth 1933: Ann Vickers Serialized in Redbook , August, November and December 1932 1934: Work of Art 1935: It Can't Happen Here 1938: The Prodigal Parents 1940: Bethel Merriday 1943: Gideon Planish 1945: Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives Appeared in Cosmopolitan , July 1945. 1947: Kingsblood Royal 1949: The God-Seeker 1951: World So Wide (posthumous) Short stories. 1907: "That Passage in Isaiah", The Blue Mule , May 1907 1907: "Art and the Woman", The Gray Goose , June 1907 1911: "The Way to Rome", The Bellman , May 13, 1911 1915: "Commutation: $9.17", The Saturday Evening Post , October 30, 1915 1915: "The Other Side of the House", The Saturday Evening Post , November 27, 1915 1916: "If I Were Boss", The Saturday Evening Post , January 1 and 8, 1916 1916: "I'm a Stranger Here Myself", The Smart Set , August 1916 1916: "He Loved His Country", Everybody's Magazine , October 1916 1916: "Honestly If Possible", The Saturday Evening Post , October 14, 191 1917: "Twenty-Four Hours in June", The Saturday Evening Post , February 17, 1917 1917: "The Innocents", Woman's Home Companion , March 1917 1917: "A Story with a Happy Ending", The Saturday Evening Post , March 17, 1917 1917: "Hobohemia", The Saturday Evening Post , April 7, 1917 1917: "The Ghost Patrol", The Red Book Magazine , June 1917 Adapted for the silent film The Ghost Patrol (1923) 1917: "Young Man Axelbrod", The Century , June 1917 1917: "A Woman by Candlelight", The Saturday Evening Post , July 28, 1917 1917: "The Whisperer", The Saturday Evening Post , August 11, 1917 1917: "The Hidden People", Good Housekeeping , September 1917 1917: "Joy-Joy", The Saturday Evening Post , October 20, 1917 1918: "A Rose for Little Eva", McClure's , February 1918 1918: "Slip It to ’Em", Metropolitan Magazine , March 1918 1918: "An Invitation to Tea", Every Week , June 1, 1918 1918: "The Shadowy Glass", The Saturday Evening Post , June 22, 1918 1918: "The Willow Walk", The Saturday Evening Post , August 10, 1918 1918: "Getting His Bit", Metropolitan Magazine , September 1918 1918: "The Swept Hearth", The Saturday Evening Post , September 21, 1918 1918: "Jazz", Metropolitan Magazine , October 1918 1918: "Gladvertising", The Popular Magazine , October 7, 1918 1919: "Moths in the Arc Light", The Saturday Evening Post , January 11, 1919 1919: "The Shrinking Violet", The Saturday Evening Post , February 15, 1919 1919: "Things", The Saturday Evening Post , February 22, 1919 1919: "The Cat of the Stars", The Saturday Evening Post , April 19, 1919 1919: "The Watcher Across the Road", The Saturday Evening Post , May 24, 1919 1919: "Speed", The Red Book Magazine , June 1919 1919: "The Shrimp-Colored Blouse", The Red Book Magazine , August 1919 1919: "The Enchanted Hour", The Saturday Evening Post , August 9, 1919 1919: "Danger — Run Slow", The Saturday Evening Post , October 18 and 25, 1919 1919: "Bronze Bars", The Saturday Evening Post , December 13, 1919 1920: "Habaes Corpus", The Saturday Evening Post , January 24, 1920 1920: "Way I See It", The Saturday Evening Post , May 29, 1920 1920: "The Good Sport", The Saturday Evening Post , December 11, 1920 1921: "A Matter of Business", Harper’s , March 1921 1921: "Number Seven to Sagapoose", The American Magazine , May 1921 1921: "The Post-Mortem Murder", The Century , May 1921 1923: "The Hack Driver", The Nation , August 29, 1923 1929: "He Had a Brother", Cosmopolitan , May 1929 1929: "There Was a Prince", Cosmopolitan , June 1929 1929: "Elizabeth, Kitty and Jane", Cosmopolitan , July 1929 1929: "Dear Editor", Cosmopolitan , August 1929 1929: "What a Man!", Cosmopolitan , September 1929 1929: "Keep Out of the Kitchen", Cosmopolitan , October 1929 1929: "A Letter from the Queen", Cosmopolitan , December 1929 1930: "Youth", Cosmopolitan , February 1930 1930: "Noble Experiment", Cosmopolitan , August 1930 1930: "Little Bear Bongo", Cosmopolitan , September 1930 Adapted for the animated feature film Fun and Fancy Free (1947) 1930: "Go East, Young Man", Cosmopolitan , December 1930 1931: "Let’s Play King", Cosmopolitan , January, February and March 1931 1931: "Pajamas", Redbook , April 1931 1931: "Ring Around a Rosy", The Saturday Evening Post , June 6, 1931 1931: "City of Mercy", Cosmopolitan , July 1931 1931: "Land", The Saturday Evening Post , September 12, 1931 1931: "Dollar Chasers", The Saturday Evening Post , October 17 and 24, 1931 1935: "The Hippocratic Oath", Cosmopolitan , June 1935 1935: "Proper Gander", The Saturday Evening Post , July 13, 1935 1935: "Onward, Sons of Ingersoll!", Scribner’s , August 1935 1936: "From the Queen", Argosy , February 1936 1941: "The Man Who Cheated Time", Good Housekeeping , March 1941 1941: "Manhattan Madness", The American Magazine , September 1941 1941: "They Had Magic Then!", Liberty , September 6, 1941 1943: "All Wives Are Angels", Cosmopolitan , February 1943 1943: "Nobody to Write About", Cosmopolitan , July 1943 1943: "Harri", Good Housekeeping , September 1943 1943: "Green Eyes—A Handbook of Jealousy", Cosmopolitan , September and October 1943. The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1904–1949) Samuel J. Rogal edited The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1904–1949) , a seven-volume set published in 2007 by Edwin Mellen Press. The first attempt to collect all of Lewis's short stories. [23] Sinclair Lewis Boxed Set – 16 titles in One Volume: Babbitt, Main Street, The Trail of the Hawk, Moths in the Arc Light, Nature, Inc., The Cat of the Stars and more. It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt , and Arrowsmith . A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press. Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935, It Can’t Happen Here is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today’s news. " The Four Winds seems eerily prescient in 2021 . . . Its message is galvanizing and hopeful: We are a nation of scrappy survivors. We’ve been in dire straits before; we will be again. Hold your people close.”— The New York Times. "A spectacular tour de force that shines a spotlight on the indispensable but often overlooked role of Greatest Generation women." —People "Through one woman’s survival during the harsh and haunting Dust Bowl, master storyteller, Kristin Hannah, reminds us that the human heart and our Earth are as tough, yet as fragile, as a change in the wind." — Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing. From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them. “ My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family .” Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family.