Apr. 15—Most Minnesotans know that author Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre. He wrote "Main Street," which was on almost every high school reading list and is 100 years old this year. And for ...

Patrick Coleman is on a mission to persuade you to read Sinclair Lewis. Born in Sauk Centre, Minn., Lewis wrote 23 novels and seven plays and was the first American to win the prestigious Nobel Prize ...

Here are three things that Patrick Coleman would like people to know about writer Sinclair Lewis: 1. Contrary to popular belief, Lewis did not hate his hometown of Sauk Centre, Minn., which was the ...

Last Sunday, with Rudy Vallee on the turntable, I slipped on my plus-fours to take a seat on the veranda, sip from my glass of sarsaparilla and dive back into my well-thumbed copy of "Babbitt." OK, ...

THE MAN FROM MAIN STREET (371 pp.) —Edited by Harry Maule and Melville Cane—Random House ($3.75). Like a good many other U.S. novelists who get a kick out of posing as intellectual primitives, ...

Fans of Minnesota author Sinclair Lewis will gather next week in Sauk Centre, his home town, to mark the 100th anniversary of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Arrowsmith.” Many believe the story of ...

A new exhibit at Minnesota History Center spotlights Minnesota author Sinclair Lewis. This photo is inscribed by Lewis “amiably” to Chicago Sun literary critic C. N. Thomas, and dated Chicago, October ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota writer Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here” may be on everyone’s lips these days, but is now really the time to read a dystopian novel about civilization collapsing? May we ...

Sinclair Lewis, America’s only Nobel prize winner for literature, on the burning of Jewish and “Marxist” books in Nazi Germany: “Throughout the ages many of the greatest scientists and theologians ...

“On Main Street” (Jan. 2) is a welcome reminder of Sinclair Lewis’s life and literary achievement. Disappointing, though, is Robert Gottlieb’s treatment of “Kingsblood Royal,” offered as an example of ...