In 1930, following Elmer Gantry (1927) and Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis became the first American author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for distinction in world literature.
This was followed by the two novels considered by many to be his finest, Babbitt (1922) and Arrowsmith (1925), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, but declined by Lewis. But with the publication of Main Street (1920), which sold half a million copies, he achieved wide recognition. He worked for some years as a freelance editor and journalist, during which time he published several minor novels. His college career was interrupted by various part-time occupations, including a period working at the Helicon Home Colony, Upton Sinclair's socialist experiment in New Jersey.
In 1926 Lewis refused the Pulitzer when he was awarded it for ARROWSMITH.Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and graduated from Yale University in 1908. The prize went, instead, to Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence. MAIN STREET was initially awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, but was rejected by the Board of Trustees, who overturned the jury's decision.
MAIN STREET is important for a number of reasons among them is the portrayal of a strong female protagonist, and what one might now call feminist themes by a male writer. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT AMERICAN NOVEL OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Overall, a pleasing and very collectable copy. The cloth is dark and clean but for a bit of age to the rear cover, the orange panels and lettering are complete and especially fresh and well preserved, some old tape residue at the rear pastedown. A very handsome copy, very well preserved, tight and in pleasing condition at the extremities. 8vo, publisher s original blue cloth with orange lettering panels on the spine and upper cover lettered in blue and ruled in orange. First edition, with 49 perfect, folio 54 complete and unbattered and the "y" in may imperfect.
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