Harry Sinclair Lewis grew up in this home and penned some of his books becoming America’s first Nobel Prize Winner in Literature. Critics praised him claiming that his writing represented the culture of the 1920s and 1930s. Mark Schorer, in his biography notes, “American culture seems always to have had a literary spokesman, a single writer who presented American culture and American Attitudes toward its culture to the world.” Lewis was that author as the titles of two of his novels; Main Street and Babbitt were introduced into the American vocabulary developing their own cultural meanings. The five works that Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize for include: Elmer Gantry, Babbitt, Dodsworth, Arrowsmith and Main Street. A book that changed the course of literature by candidly portraying American life when it was published in 1920. Built in 1889, this house has been carefully restored to the turn of the century period when Harry Sinclair Lewis lived here with his parent s and two brothers Claude and Fred. Lewis maintained a lifelong attachment to Sauk Centre. Born February 7, 1885, his mother Emma died when he was six. A year later his father married Isabel Warner. The young red-headed kid was most likely to be seen taking solitary walks or reading books than enjoying more sociable endeavors. Despite his youthful loneliness and the fact that he wrote scathingly of his town in Main Street, Sinclair Lewis in the end chose Sauk Centre. After his death in Italy on January 10, 1951, his ashes were flown back to Sauk Centre for burial. Lewis wrote 22 novels and 100 short stories. Approval by Sinclair Lewis Foundation.
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