Main Street

Name: Main Street
Author: Sinclair Lewis

by Sinclair Lewis

Novel satirizing small-town conformity and the limited aspirations of ordinary Americans

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Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognized for his satirical portraits of middle-class conformity and provincial smugness. His novels gave names—Babbitt, Main Street—that became cultural shorthand.

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