Sinclair Lewis
American
Sinclair Lewis was an American Nobel prize-winning author, who's notables works include Babbitt, Main Street, Arrowsmith and It Can't Happen Here. - AsNotedIn
Sinclair Lewis was an American Nobel prize-winning author, who's notables works include Babbitt, Main Street, Arrowsmith and It Can't Happen Here. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1885/02/07 | Harry Sinclair Lewis is born in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota to Edwin J Lewis, a physician, and Emma Kermott Lewis. | Born | Sauk Centre | Minnesota | |||
| 1889/00/00 | Sinclair Lewis moves with his parents to a newly built eight-room house directly across the street from his birthplace. | Home | Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home | Sauk Centre | |||
| 1900/00/00 | Across the street from the Palmer House Hotel, Dr Edwin J Lewis, father of Harry Sinclair, has his office above the drugstore. Probably at 300 Main St S, Sauk Centre, MN. | Family | Original Main Street Historic District | Sauk Centre | |||
| 1900/07/00 | Harry Sinclair works behind the cigar counter at the Palmer House Hotel during a couple of summers. He will later used it as the model for the "Minniemashie House" in his novel Main Street, set in a town modeled on Sauk Centre. | Work | Main Street (book) | Palmer House Hotel | Sauk Centre | ||
| 1912/00/00 | Hike and the Aeroplane - published | Author | Hike and the Aeroplane | ||||
| 1914/00/00 | Our Mr. Wrenn - published | Author | Our Mr Wrenn | ||||
| 1915/10/02 | Selected by editor George Horace Lorimer from the magazine's "slush pile" of manuscripts, Sinclair Lewis's short story "Nature, Inc" is published in The Saturday Evening Post. | Author | Nature, Inc (Sinclair short story) | ||||
| 1917/00/00 | The Innocents - published | Author | The Innocents | ||||
| 1917/00/00 | The Job - published | Author | The Job | ||||
| 1918/00/00 | "The Willow Walk" by Sinclair Lewis is locked up in 'The Best Short Stories of 1918', published in Boston by Small, Maynard and Co. | Author | The Willow Walk (short story) | ||||
| 1919/00/00 | Free Air - published | Author | Free Air | ||||
| 1919/08/09 | "The Enchanted Hour" by Sinclair Lewis is published in The Saturday Evening Post. | Author | The Enchanted Hour (short story) | ||||
| 1920/00/00 | Many of the incidents in "Main Street" come directly from Lewis' actual experiences: his mother's social club, the public restroom and the anti-fly campaign, amateur theatricals, revival meetings, which make the novel a whole scrapbook of his youth. | Author | Main Street (book) | Original Main Street Historic District | Sauk Centre | ||
| 1920/10/23 | Although already in stores, "Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis is officially published. Lewis steps into Brentano's bookstore in Washington, DC, to see it for himself, but is disconcerted to find copies of "Free Air" still on display. | Author | Main Street (book) | ||||
| 1921/06/18 | John L Heaton sends a note to The World's editor clarifying that the Novel jury did not recommend Wharton's "The Age of Innocence" for the Pulitzer, but had selected "Main Street" and that the Pulitzer board reversed their decision. | Main Street Author | Main Street (book) | 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | |||
| 1921/06/18 | John L Heaton sends a note to The World's editor clarifying that the Novel jury did not recommend Wharton's "The Age of Innocence" for the Pulitzer, but had selected "Main Street" and that the Pulitzer board reversed their decision. | Main Street Author | The Age of Innocence (book) | 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | |||
| 1922/00/00 | George Horace Lorimer, editor of The Saturday Evening Post write an unkind review of "Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis. Lewis will not be published in the Post for years to come. | Author | Babbitt | ||||
| 1922/00/00 | Babbitt - published | Author | Babbitt | ||||
| 1925/00/00 | Arrowsmith - published | Author | Arrowsmith (book) | ||||
| 1926/00/00 | Mantrap - published | Author | Mantrap | ||||
| 1926/06/00 | Starting in June, Lewis stays the summer at Big Pelican Lake. Annette Fawcett, wife of Billy, offers Lewis and the Birkheads a cottage located five miles away. Breezy Point employees are assigned to take Lewis home every evening, after he closes the bar. | Visitor | Wilford H Fawcett House | Breezy Point | |||
| 1927/03/00 | Sinclair Lewis's "Elmer Gantry" is published by Harcourt Trade Publishers. | Author | Elmer Gantry (book) | ||||
| 1928/00/00 | "The Man Who Knew Coolidge" is published. | Author | The Man Who Knew Coolidge | ||||
| 1929/00/00 | Dodsworth - published | Author | Dodsworth (book) | ||||
| 1930/00/00 | Dreiser's great first novel, Sister Carrie, ... which I read 25 years ago, came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman. - SL, Nobel Lecture | Fan | Sister Carrie | ||||
| 1933/00/00 | "Ann Vickers" is published | Author | Ann Vickers | ||||
| 1934/00/00 | Work of Art - published | Author | Work of Art | ||||
| 1935/00/00 | Jayhawker - published | Author | Jayhawker | ||||
| 1935/00/00 | Selected Short Stories - published | Author | Selected Short Stories | ||||
| 1935/10/21 | "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis is published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, New York. | Author | It Can't Happen Here (book) | ||||
| 1936/00/00 | Little Bear Bongo - published | Author | Little Bear Bongo | ||||
| 1938/00/00 | The Prodigal Parents - published | Author | The Prodigal Parents | ||||
| 1940/00/00 | "Bethel Merriday" is published. | Author | Bethel Merriday | ||||
| 1943/00/00 | "Gideon Planish" is published. | Author | Gideon Planish | ||||
| 1945/00/00 | Cass Timberlane - published | Author | Cass Timberlane | ||||
| 1947/00/00 | Kingsblood Royal - published | Author | Kingsblood Royal | ||||
| 1949/00/00 | The God-Seeker - published | Author | The God-Seeker | ||||
| 1951/00/00 | World So Wide - published | Author | World So Wide | ||||
| 1951/01/10 | Sinclair Lewis dies in Rome, Italy, from advanced alcoholism. News of his passing is front page news. His body will be cremated and flown to his brother, Dr Claude Lewis, a surgeon in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. | Died | |||||
| 1951/01/18 | After a funeral in the high school auditorium, Sinclair Lewis' remains are buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. | In Memoriam | Sauk Centre | Minnesota |
30 Creative Works by Sinclair Lewis »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| Hike and the Aeroplane | Author | Book | 1912/00/00 | |
| Our Mr Wrenn | Author | Book | 1914/00/00 | |
| Tennis As I Play It | Author | Book | 1915/00/00 | |
| The Trail of the Hawk | Author | Book | 1915/00/00 | |
| Nature, Inc (Sinclair short story) | Author | Short Story | 1915/10/02 | |
| The Innocents | Author | Book | 1917/00/00 | |
| The Job | Author | Book | 1917/00/00 | |
| The Willow Walk (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1918/00/00 | |
| Free Air | Author | Book | 1919/00/00 | |
| The Enchanted Hour (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1919/08/09 | |
| Main Street (book) | Author | Novel | 1920/10/23 |
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| Babbitt | Author | Book | 1922/00/00 |
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| Arrowsmith (book) | Author | Novel | 1925/00/00 |
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| Mantrap | Author | Book | 1926/00/00 | |
| Elmer Gantry (book) | Author | Novel | 1927/03/00 | |
| The Man Who Knew Coolidge | Author | Book | 1928/00/00 | |
| Dodsworth (book) | Author | Novel | 1929/00/00 | |
| Ann Vickers | Author | Book | 1933/00/00 | |
| Work of Art | Author | Book | 1934/00/00 | |
| Jayhawker | Author | Book | 1935/00/00 | |
| Selected Short Stories | Author | Short Story Collection | 1935/00/00 | |
| It Can't Happen Here (book) | Author | Novel | 1935/10/21 | |
| Little Bear Bongo | Author | Short Story | 1936/00/00 | |
| The Prodigal Parents | Author | Book | 1938/00/00 | |
| Bethel Merriday | Author | Book | 1940/00/00 | |
| Gideon Planish | Author | Book | 1943/00/00 | |
| Cass Timberlane | Author | Book | 1945/00/00 | |
| Kingsblood Royal | Author | Book | 1947/00/00 | |
| The God-Seeker | Author | Book | 1949/00/00 | |
| World So Wide | Author | Book | 1951/00/00 |
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