BiographyHarry Lewis Sinclair was born in Sauk, central Minnesota, on February 7, 1885. Growing up he had two brothers and a father who worked as a doctor. His mother died when he was six and his father would soon remarry. Feeling incomplete with himself, Lewis tried to escape and join the Spanish-American War in 1898, but was unsuccessful (Borgoin). In 1903 Lewis enrolled at Yale University, where he wrote many literary pieces. During the summer he went to England, little did he know that it would be the start of many other trips around the world. Lewis returned to Yale in the fall, but soon left again and became a janitor at a Utopia run by Upton Sinclair. He would only stay a few months and then travel to several other places. Lewis graduated from Yale in 1907. After college he traveled to Iowa, New York, California, and Washington DC. Although he worked as a journalist, he tried to sell his stories. In 1914, Lewis married Grace Hegger. They would have a son named Wells, who would be killed during World War II. (Borgoin) In the early 1920s Lewis published Main Street. The story according to Howes, "centered on what Lewis would call 'the village virus,' meaning the ill effects of life in the suffocating atmosphere of a small town in the United States." (Howes). Main Street was a best-seller even though many people weren't big fans of the novel. In 1922, Lewis wrote a novel titled Babbitt, which also gained popularity. According to Borgoin "the reason for Babbitt's success is that Lewis, never a master of literary realism despite his spin skills, deliberately wrote in a fantastical, almost surreal style." (Borgoino). In 1926, Lewis published Arrowsmith and was awarded the Pulitzer......middle paper.......vol. 2: Biographies. Detroit: UXL, 2006. 149-156. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Network. May 11, 2014Katona, Anna B. "Sinclair Lewis." Critical investigation of long fiction. Ed. Rollyson Carl, 4th ed. 10 vols. Print.“Selected short stories”. , by Sincalir Lewis. Np, nd Web. May 11, 2014. Works Cited Borgoin, Byers, Paula K. Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2000. Print."Lewis, Sinclair." Reference Library of the Roaring Twenties. Ed. Kelly King Howes. vol. 2: Biographies. Detroit: UXL, 2006. 149-156. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Network. May 11, 2014Katona, Anna B. "Sinclair Lewis." Critical investigation of long fiction. Ed. Rollyson Carl, 4th ed. 10 vols. Print.“Selected short stories”. , by Sincalir Lewis. Np, nd Web. May 11 2014.