311) Harry Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885 –1951). American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

- “H. L. Mencken wrote of him, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis