In 1930 Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and the 1920 publication of Main Street brought him his first serious critical recognition.
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The setting is Gopher Prairie, a bastion of prosaic, small-minded, middle-class values.
He both loved and despised small towns, and the tension between those feelings permeates this classic novel.
Born and raised in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis knew the American heartland as few other writers have.
In 1930 Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and the 1920 publication of Main Street brought him his first serious critical recognition