Today's Fact: Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis comes up a lot. These are probably the facts you need to know for the TossUps.
-First American to win Nobel Prize in 1930.
-Some of his early works were Hike and the Aeroplane (1912) and Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man (1914).
-Refused the Pulitzer Prize in 1926
-Winnemac is a fictional state that exists in many of his novels

Plots of his important Novels
Main Street
- has female protagonist- Carol Milford
-She marries Will Kennicott and moves to a rural small town called Gopher Prairie
-She is dissatisfied with the backwardness of the town and tries to change it. She fails and leaves her husband to the big city.
-She finds that big city life is also hard and not as easy as it looks. She finally comes back and accepts Gopher Prairie for what it is.

Babbitt
-The protagonist- George F. Babbitt
-He lives in a place called Zenith, Winnemac and is basically a white collar worker. He is a businessman and he is going through a mid-life crisis. He rebels against it and loses.

Arrowsmith
-The protagonist- Martin Arrowsmith
-He is born in Elk Mills and becomes a doctor in a small town, Wheatsylvania.
-His friend, Max Gotlieb looks at Arrowsmith's papers and is impressed. Max gets Arrowsmith into a very prestigious institute in NY. Arrowsmith works on a phage to destroy the plague.
-His wife dies of the plague and he loses it. He follows his lifelong dream of practicing in the backwoods of Vermont.