Sinclair Lewis
Main Street
originally published:
New York : Harcourt Brace and Howe
October 1920
We offered this copy of the first issue in a later issue jacket in our Catalog 105.
awards:
- Johnson Highspot of American Literature(1920)
- Modern Library 100 Best Novels(068)
reference info
bio notes:
born: 2/7/1885
died: 1/10/1951
born as: Harry Sinclair Lewis
nationality: USA
American novelist and social critic who punctured American complacency with his broadly drawn, widely popular satirical novels. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to an American. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature