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Born
Born as Harry Sinclair Lewis, growing up he was an outsider. He never really fit in with the other kids. Even from a young age he always wrote. -
Began writing
Around 1900, Harry Lewis was in highschool and began writing in his school paper. He was an introvert and loved writing for the paper. -
Puts college education on hold...
Lewis put his education on hold in order to work briefly in a colony, set up by the writer Upton Sinclair. -
Graduates from Yale University
After graduating from yale he took time to write in newspapers and do editorials, Meanwhile he was writing yet, his first four novels were unsuccessful, -
First book published, Hike and the Aeroplane
Sinclair's first book that was published was Hike and the Aeroplane. If it weren't for this book who knows what might've happened to Sinclair. His career truly lifted off when this book was published. -
Main Street was published (pt. 1)
Main Street was the first book that Sinclair Lewis wrote that became really popular. -
gained recognition (pt 2)
Once his book Main Street was published he quickly gained recognition for the book, all over the world. -
Nobel Prize
Sinclair Lewis woke up on the morning of November 5th to find out he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, He was the American author to be awarded this Prize. -
Died
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Infulence
Sinclair Lewis infulences writers today. His works, Main Street and Babbitt, nailed what his idea of thougtless consumption in middle-class American society. He set American writers up as an inspiration to them and then they would go on to inspire more writers.