Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street Old Testament and what the rest of

and what the rest of the world fails to see once again becomes reality: It is a remarkable struggle

ISBN10: 151721470X

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

From 1957 to 2001

from which she barely escaped the guillotine

Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street Old Testament and what the rest ofIn 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