Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)
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Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota. He 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. A lonely child, Lewis immersed himself in reading and diary writing. toon meer While studying at Yale University and living in writer Upton Sinclair's communal house, he wrote for Yale Literary Magazine and helped to build the Panama Canal. After graduating from Yale in 1908, Lewis began writing fiction, publishing 22 novels by the end of his career. His early works, while often praised by literary critics, did not reach popularity but with Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), and Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis achieved fame as a writer. His style of choice was satire; he explored American small-town life, conformity, hypocrisy, and materialism. Sinclair Lewis was married and divorced twice. As his career wound down, he spent his later life in Europe and died in Rome on January 10, 1951. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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The Three Readers: Clifton Fadiman, Sinclair Lewis, Carl Van Doren (1943) — Redacteur; Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
Sinclair Lewis Premium Collection (Our Mr. Wrenn / The Trail of the Hawk / The Job / The Innocents / Free Air / Main… (2018) 6 exemplaren
Babbitt / Moths in the Arc Light / The Willow Walk / It Can't Happen Here / The Queen's Letter (1979) 4 exemplaren
Sinclair Lewis Boxed Set – 16 titles in One Volume: Babbitt, Main Street, The Trail of the Hawk, Moths in the Arc… 4 exemplaren
Free Air 3 exemplaren
Our Mr. Wrenn / The Man Who Knew Coolidge 3 exemplaren
Letters from Jack London, Containing an Unpublished Correspondence between London and Sinclair Lewis (1966) 2 exemplaren
A Book of Prefaces 2 exemplaren
The American village in a global setting selected papers from an interdisciplinary conference in honour of Sinclair… (2007) 2 exemplaren
Opere 2 exemplaren
Travel Is So Broadening 2 exemplaren
Sinclair Lewis (series) 6 vols 2 exemplaren
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Main Street: The Best Adaptation 1 exemplaar
Samples: A Book Containing Many Fine Pages from the Books to be Published by The Limited Editions Club in its Seventh… (1936) 1 exemplaar
Babbitt / Arrowsmith 1 exemplaar
Arrowsmith, Volume 2 1 exemplaar
Virga Vay & Allan Cedar 1 exemplaar
Kingsblood Royal, Book 1 of 2 1 exemplaar
Da noi non può succedere 1 exemplaar
It Can't Happen Here and Other Stories 1 exemplaar
Lewis Sinclair 1 exemplaar
You Know How Women Are 1 exemplaar
Selected Letters of Sinclair Lewis 1 exemplaar
Sinclair Lewis Set: Ann Vikers, Arrowsmith, Babbit, It Can't Happen Here, Work of Art (1925) 1 exemplaar
Omnibook Magazine, February 1946 1 exemplaar
The Queen's Letter and Other Stories 1 exemplaar
The Watcher Across the Road 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Officiële naam
- Lewis, Harry Sinclair
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Lewis, Red
Graham, Tom - Geboortedatum
- 1885
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1951
- Graflocatie
- Greenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Rome, Italy
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- advanced alcoholism
- Woonplaatsen
- Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Carmel, California, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
New York, New York, USA
Rome, Italy (toon alle 9)
Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Thorvale Farm, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
Barnard, Vermont, USA - Opleiding
- Oberlin Academy
Yale University (AB|1908) - Beroepen
- novelist
short-story writer
playwright
sold fiction plots to novelist Jack London
ghostwriter
editor (toon alle 12)
reporter
advertising manager
actor
secretary
janitor
columnist - Relaties
- Thompson, Dorothy (wife|divorced)
Lewis, Grace Hegger (wife|divorced)
Lewis, J. P. Sinclair (grandson)
Wharton, Edith (friend)
Acheson, Dean (friend)
Shirer, William L. (friend) (toon alle 8)
Kruif, Paul de (friend)
Jordan, Elizabeth Garver (editor) - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1935)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (vice president)
Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, New Jersey
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California writers' colony
Transatlantic Tales, New York, New York (assistant editor)
Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa (reporter) (toon alle 14)
Associated Press, San Francisco (staff writer)
Volta Review, Washington, D.C. (staff member)
Frederick A. Stokes (publisher), New York, New York (manuscript reader)
Adventure, New York, New York (assistant editor)
Publisher's Newspaper Syndicate, New York, NY (editor)
George H. Doran (publisher), New York, NY (editorial assistant, advertising manager, and full-time writer)
Newsweek (columnist)
Esquire (columnist) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1930)
- Agent
- Edith Haggard
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De roman verhaalt over zijn leven als makelaar en geeft een inkijkje in het leven van een man die het aanvankelijk goed met zichzelf heeft getroffen. Een behoorlijk inkomen en maatschappelijk aanzien verhullen aanvankelijk de grote leegte “van de schone schijn” waarin hij leeft. Langzaamaan kan hij de grote vragen die het leven soms stelt, niet uit de weg gaan.
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Met een mengeling van ironie en een licht cynisme vertelt Lewis een boeiend verhaal, waarbij het opvalt dat mensen en gebeurtenissen -ook al zijn ze ongeveer honderd jaar geleden beschreven- vrijwel naadloos in de huidige tijd kunnen worden geprojecteerd.
Een mooi boek dat een indringend beeld geeft van het leven van één uit de talloos velen.… (meer)