Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist and playwright known for satirizing middle class life and social pressure toward conformity. He was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota and graduated from Yale University. Some of his most famous novels include Main Street, Babbitt, and Elmer Gantry, with Babbitt critiquing the vacuity of middle class life and influencing the decision to award Lewis the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. His novels satirized the bourgeoisie and its concerns with business and religion.

1. SINCLE
R
LEWIS

2. HIS LIFE
• Harry Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and
graduated from Yale University.
• He took time off from school to work at a socialist community,
Helicon Home Colony, financed by muckraking novelist Upton
Sinclair.
• American novelist and playwright whose work expressed the
lack of spirituality of the average American man.
• His first famous novel was the satirical “Main Street” which
divided the opinions of critics.

3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• His novels are a satire of the bourgeoisie and its
mercantile and religious concerns.
• After Babbitt he published two other novels: Human
Trap (1926) and Elmer Gantry (1927)
• In 1928 he released The Man Who Knew Coolidge,
Dodsworth (1929), Work of art (1934), I Can’t Happen
Here (1936), Arrowsmith in 1925 and finaly in 1951
World so wide The novel was published posthumously

4. ABOUT BABBIT
• Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a
satirical novel about American culture and society that
critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social
pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by
Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel
Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930.