Sinclair Lewis

Person · Open Library

Born

7 February 1885

Died

10 January 1951

Works

237

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1935-09-29

Active to

2022-10-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

182

Total plays

4,708

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "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 society and capitalist values, as well as for their strong characterizations of modern working women. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sinclair+Lewis">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT

   · 1951 · cited 249,223x

2. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,882x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,455x

4. Methods for Dietary Fiber, Neutral Detergent Fiber, and Nonstarch Polysaccharides in Relation to Animal Nutrition

   · 1991 · cited 22,148x

5. Grey Wolf Optimizer

   · 2014 · cited 18,316x

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Quotes

• “Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.”
• “The trouble with this country is... that there're too many people going about saying "The trouble with this country is—"”
• “Slow yellow river flowing, willows that gesture in tepid August airs, and four children playing at greatness, as, doubtless, great men themselves must play.”
• “Probably none of the Weagles gave five minutes' thought a year to theology or ecclesiology, except Ora, who occasionally stirred up a lot of interesting family irritation by announcing that he was going to become a Catholic, an Episcopalian, a Buddhist, or a Seventh Day Adventist.”
• “Myron reflected that there are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.”
• “I understand you all want to be writers. Well, what are you doing here? Why the devil aren't you home writing?”

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🏅Nobel Prize

• The Nobel Prize in Literature1930

  “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters”