Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951) — United States, writing in English. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930.
“for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters” — The Nobel Committee citation
About Sinclair Lewis
American novelist and satirist who exposed complacency, consumerism, and conformity in middle-class life. Through Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and other novels, he created character types at once comic and disturbing; in 1930 he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.