Lewis was born on Feb. 7, 1885, in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. He was the youngest of three boys. Their father, Edwin J. Lewis, was the small town’s doctor; their mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, died when ...

Fans of Minnesota author Sinclair Lewis will gather next week in Sauk Centre, his home town, to mark the 100th anniversary of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Arrowsmith.” Many believe the story of ...

Sinclair Lewis wrote “It Can’t Happen Here” in less than two months during the summer of 1935 while at his summer residence in Barnard. Photo via the New York Public Library Nobel Prize winning author ...

Last Sunday, with Rudy Vallee on the turntable, I slipped on my plus-fours to take a seat on the veranda, sip from my glass of sarsaparilla and dive back into my well-thumbed copy of "Babbitt." OK, ...

In this time of education and truth coming under attack, I encourage individuals to donate to NPR, PBS and public libraries. An informed citizenry has become ever so vital. I donated to a public ...

Unlike most Lewis novels, Cass Timberlane posed no social problem. Blurbed ostentatiously as “a novel of husbands and wives,” it chronicled the courtship and marriage of sedate, flute-playing Judge ...

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