Sinclair Lewis

Writing

Sinclair Lewis

Born February 6, 1885 · Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA

Died January 10, 1951 · aged 65

Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Stree…

Known For

Fun and Fancy FreeFun and Fancy Free · 1947
Fun and Fancy Free
6.31947
MovieAnimationFamily
Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.
Elmer GantryElmer Gantry · 1960
Elmer Gantry
7.31960
MovieDrama
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Cass TimberlaneCass Timberlane · 1947
Cass Timberlane
6.01947
MovieDramaRomance
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.
DodsworthDodsworth · 1936
Dodsworth
7.11936
MovieDramaRomance
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
BabbittBabbitt · 1924
Babbitt
8.01924
MovieDrama
A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
ArrowsmithArrowsmith · 1931
Arrowsmith
6.61931
MovieDrama
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Ann VickersAnn Vickers · 1933
Ann Vickers
5.81933
MovieDramaRomance
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
BongoBongo · 1947
Bongo
6.41947
MovieAnimationComedy
Bongo, the performing bear, escapes from the circus and tries to adapt to life in the wild.

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This Is the LifeThis Is the Life · 1944
This Is the Life
6.01944
MovieComedyDrama
18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated. Her departure depresses her childhood friend Jimmy Plum. Dr. Plum devises an errand on which to send his love-sick son to New York, where Jimmy discovers Angela thinks she is Jarret's fiancée. Jimmy also renews acquaintances with a group of show people, including Sally McGuire, who attempts to console him. Jimmy meets Jarret's divorced wife, Harriet, famed photographer. Jimmy engineers a meeting of Jarret and Harriet with Angela present, which forms the beginning of an understanding that Jarret is not for her. Jimmy is inducted into the Army.

Theatre Play

BabbittBabbitt · 1934
Babbitt
6.31934
MovieDrama
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.

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