![]() During his lifetime, he wrote over 100 short stories and twenty-three Novels. Lewis’s first novel, the boy’s adventure tale, Hike and the Aeroplane (1912), was written under a pseudonym. Following graduation, he was a newspaperman, a creator of plots for Jack London, and a translator of poetry from the French and German he also worked for the publishing firms of Frederick Stokes and George H. He graduated from Yale University and punctuated his education by trips to England and Panama, as well as work as a janitor at Upton Sinclair’s artistic colony Helicon Hall. Born in the prairie town of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis was eager to experience life beyond his hometown. Harry Sinclair Lewis (b. 1885–d. 1951) was an astute critic of American society and the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]()
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