noun
United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951)
• Syn: ↑Lewis, ↑Harry Sinclair Lewis
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(1885–1951) a US writer of novels which often show ridiculous aspects of American life. He was the first American to receive the ↑Nobel Prize (in 1930). His books include Main Street (1920), ↑Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925) (which won the ↑Pulitzer Prize though Lewis refused to accept it), ↑Elmer Gantry (1927) and Dodsworth (1929).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.