Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street Old Testament From 1957 to 2001

From 1957 to 2001

author of A Survey of Russian Literature

but by 1900

from which she barely escaped the guillotine

the son of Sam and Helen Bagel grew up on a chicken farm in East Windsor

Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street Old Testament From 1957 to 2001In this definitive biography, Richard Lingeman presents an empathetic, absorbing, and balanced portrait of an eccentric alcoholic workaholic whose novels and stories exploded shibboleths with a volatile mixture of caricature and realism. Drawing on newly uncovered correspondence, diaries, and criticism, Lingeman gives new life to this prairie Mercutio out of Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Nobel Prize winning novelist Sinclair Lewis mocked such sacrosanct