Main Street is a 1920 satirical novel by American author, Sinclair Lewis. Highly acclaimed upon publication, Main Street is the best selling American novel published in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. - AsNotedIn
This is America - a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves.
The town is, in our tale called "Gopher Prairie, Minnesota." But its main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and up not very differently would be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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1900/07/00 | Sinclair Lewis | Work | 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. | Palmer House Hotel | Sauk Centre | ||
1920/00/00 | Sinclair Lewis | Author | 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. | Original Main Street Historic District | Sauk Centre | ||
1920/10/23 | Sinclair Lewis | Author | 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. | ||||
1920/10/23 | Harcourt Brace and Company | Publisher | 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. | ||||
1921/06/18 | New York World | Pulitzer Prize Authority | 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. | 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | |||
1921/06/18 | Sinclair Lewis | Main Street Author | 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. | 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
Particulars for Main Street (book): | |||
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Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
Narrative Arts | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity, hypocrisy or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. |
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Original Language: | English |
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