John Benson: Sinclair Lewis

Artist: John Benson
1949 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1984
Image Size: 18 by 13 inches
Overall Size: 25 by 20 inches
Medium: Acrylic on Cold Press Illustration Board

The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, novelist Sinclair Lewis gained international fame for his satirical novels. Although his books were often surrounded by controversy, Sinclair Lewis gained great popularity as a novelist. Lewis first gained a reputation as a serious writer with his novel Main Street which was published in 1920. Patterned after his own hometown of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Main Street probed the commercial values and lack of individuality in small-town America. Launched by the success of Main Street, Lewis continued to write popular novels including Babbitt and Arrowsmith. Receiving the same acclaim and controversy as his earlier works, Arrowsmith examined corruption in the medical society. This novel not only won Lewis the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, but it was instrumental in his becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day of Issue Maximum Card for the U.S. 14¢ Sinclair Lewis stamp issued March 21, 1985.

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