Since the 1922 publication of Babbitt, its eponymous antihero--a prosperous real estate broker and relentless social climber inhabiting a Midwestern town called Zenith--has become a symbol of stultifying values and middle-class hypocrisy.
She has edited two c.
She is currently the Executive Director of the Sinclair Lewis Society and editor of the Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter.
Parry is Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and Director of General Education at Illinois State University.
Sally E.
He continued to write novels and plays for another two decades and published his last work, World So Wide (1951), shortly before his death in Rome.
In 1930, he became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In the decade that followed, Lewis published four other acclaimed novels of social criticism: Babbitt (1922)
Arrowsmith (1925), for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize
Elmer Gantry (1927); and Dodsworth (1929).
Main Street (1920) was his first successful novel.
After graduating from Yale in 1907, he went to New York, tried freelance work for a time, and then worked in a variety of editorial positions from the East Coast to California.
Parry About the Author: Harry Sinclair Lewis, (1885-1951) the son of a country doctor, was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Includes a new afterword by Azar Nafisi Introduction by Sally E.
Contemptible and touching, frivolous and tragic, Babbitt is a rich, complex character whose legacy carries an eerie resonance to this day.
Babbitt remains one of Sinclair Lewis\'s most widely read novels.
Babbitt, his family, and his social circle are the very essence of the American Dream in all its glory and emptiness, and their story is a stirring portrait of a way of life in profound flux.
Babbitt represents an ordinary man whose life turns upside down during one of the most profound sea changes in American cultural history: the mechanization and hucksterism of the Roaring Twenties.
At once a conformist and a rebel, George F.
Since the 1922 publication of Babbitt, its eponymous antihero--a prosperous real estate broker and relentless social climber inhabiting a Midwestern town called Zenith--has become a symbol of stultifying values and middle-class hypocrisy
