![]() It is exhaustive, with 800+ pages devoted to his birth, childhood, education, and literary career. He died alone in an obscure hospital outside Rome in 1951.Ī writer as significant as Lewis deserves an in-depth biography, but I don't think by ] is the one Lewis deserves. ![]() He was passed over for one Pulitzer, later awarded the prize for a different book (which prize he rejected), and finally, became the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (which prize he accepted). In the same decade (1920-1929), he wrote 60 short stories, articles, reviews, essays, and other published writings. In the span of a single decade, he wrote five first-rate novels (as well as a couple of so-so novels). ![]() Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark SchorerĪt one time, Sinclair Lewis was the toast of the literary world. ![]()
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