Awards & Winners

Sinclair Lewis

Date of Birth 07-February-1885
Place of Birth Sauk Centre
(Stearns County, Minnesota, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Harry Sinclair Lewis, Lewis Sinclair
Profession Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Author
Quotes
  • Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
  • Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
  • Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
  • Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
  • The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is...
  • Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
  • What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
  • In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
  • Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
  • There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H.L. Mencken wrote of him, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a Great Americans series postage stamp.

Awards by Sinclair Lewis

Check all the awards nominated and won by Sinclair Lewis.

2007


Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : It Can't Happen Here

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award It Can't Happen Here

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award It Can't Happen Here

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award It Can't Happen Here

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award It Can't Happen Here

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award It Can't Happen Here

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award It Can't Happen Here

1930


Nobel Prize in Literature
(for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters.)

Nominations 1930 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nobel Prize in Literature

1926


Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Honored for : Arrowsmith
([Novel])