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- Birth nameHarry Sinclair Lewis
- Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was a colossus of American letters in the first half of the last century. Arguably, he is the first major "modern" writer of the 20th century, as there is American literature before "Main Street" (1920) and after that seminal novel, which revolutionized writing in the US. His eminence as a great American writer was eclipsed by Ernest Hemingway, who although more influenced by Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein, owes a debt to Lewis, as do most realists in 20th-century American letters.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood
- SpousesDorothy Thompson(May 14, 1928 - January 2, 1942) (divorced, 1 child)Grace Livingston Hegger(April 15, 1914 - April 20, 1928) (divorced, 1 child)
- Was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.
- Pictured on a 14¢ US definitive postage stamp in the Great Americans series, issued 21 March 1985.
- Father (with journalist Dorothy Thompson) of Michael Lewis.
- Had a son, Wells Lewis (born 1917) with his first wife, Grace Livingston Hegger. He was named after English author, H.G. Wells. Wells was killed in 1944 in World War II combat in France.
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