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Sinclair Lewis (1885)close

Born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Lewis wrote novels that satirized middle class life in the 1920s, including Main Street and Babbitt. He also satirized the medical profession in his novel Arrowsmith, and religious revivals in Elmer Gantry.

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