There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers—most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull. —Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (6939 ) Sinclair
Sinclair Lewis 1885–1951, American novelist, b. Sauk Centre, Minn., grad. Yale Univ., 1908. Probably the greatest satirist of his era, Lewis wrote novels that present a devastating picture of middle-class American life in the 1920s.… With the publication of Main Street (1920), a merciless satire on life in a Midwestern small town, Lewis immediately became an important literary figure. His next novel, Babbitt (1922), considered by many critics to be his greatest work, is a portrait of an average American businessman, a Republican and a Rotarian, whose individuality has been erased by conformist values.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Pronunciation: l from The American Heritage®
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The novel behind the name, Babbitt is Sinclair Lewis’s classic commentary on middle-class society.
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