"of an immense exuberance, organic in its form, kinetic, and drenched with the love of life... I rejoice over Mr. Wolfe."" Both in his 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech and original press conference announcement, Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, said of Wolfe, ""He may have a chance to be the greatest American writer... In fact I don't see why he should not be one of the greatest world writers."" Upon publication of his second novel, ""Of Time and the River"", most reviewers and the public remained supportive, though some critics found"
"of alcoholism ""per se"". He reported that Lewis had a heart attack and that his doctors advised him to stop drinking if he wanted to live. Lewis did not stop, and perhaps could not; he died when his heart stopped. In summing up Lewis' career, Shirer concludes: Samuel J. Rogal edited ""The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1904–1949)"", a seven-volume set published in 2007 by Edwin Mellen Press. The first attempt to collect all of Lewis's short stories. Sinclair Lewis Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930,"
"Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel ""The Jungle"", which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act"
"Bennie Lee Sinclair Bennie Lee Sinclair (April 15, 1939 – May 22, 2000) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She was named by Governor Richard Wilson Riley as the fifth South Carolina Poet Laureate from 1986 to 2000. Sinclair was born on April 15, 1939, in Greenville, South Carolina. She was born to William Graham Sinclair, Sr., and the former Bennie Lee Ward. Her parents separated when she was five years old and she stayed with her mother. Sinclair graduated from Greenville High School in 1956 and then graduated from Furman University in 1961. She was elected"
"Jo Sinclair Ruth Seid (July 1, 1913 – April 4, 1995), was an American novelist who wrote under the pen name Jo Sinclair. She earned awards and critical praise for her novels about race relations and the struggles of immigrant families in America. The fifth child and third daughter of Jewish immigrants, Ruth Seid was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 1, 1913, the daughter of Nathan Seid and his wife, Ida (Kravetsky). In an effort to escape the blinding poverty in which they lived, the Seid family moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1916, but her parents were unable"
"as the narrator. His book ""The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman"" won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1967. His biographies have covered a wide variety of famous people: Che Guevara, Dylan Thomas, Jack London, John Ford, J Pierpont Morgan and Francis Bacon. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972. His most recent work is his autobiography, ""Storytelling: A Sort of Memoir"" (2018). Sinclair was Director of Historical Studies, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1961–63; and Lecturer in American History, University College London (UCL), 1965–67. His writings on persons and themes of American history"
"Linnea Sinclair Linnea Sinclair (born 1954 in New Jersey, United States) is an American writer of Science Fiction Romance, Fantasy romance and Paranormal romance. Sinclair's ""Gabriel's Ghost"" was the winner of the 2006 RITA Award in the Best Paranormal Romance category. She has used the pseudonym Megan Sybil Baker. Formerly, she has been a news reporter and a private detective. Linnea Sinclair was born in New Jersey, USA. She studied journalism and criminology at Indiana University Bloomington (1972–1975) and Florida State University. Sinclair is a former investigative news reporter and private investigator in the Central Florida area who has written"
"stories and articles although her output slowed somewhat as she aged. She succumbed to cancer on April 4, 1995 at the age of 81 at her home in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Jo Sinclair Ruth Seid (July 1, 1913 – April 4, 1995), was an American novelist who wrote under the pen name Jo Sinclair. She earned awards and critical praise for her novels about race relations and the struggles of immigrant families in America. The fifth child and third daughter of Jewish immigrants, Ruth Seid was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 1, 1913, the daughter of Nathan Seid and"
"Poetry. Other awards include: Sinclair published works included a novel, short stories, and poetry: In addition to her collections, some of her writings have been anthologized and have appeared in magazines and journals such as ""Foxfire"", ""Ms."", ""North American Review"", and ""The South Carolina Review"". In 1994, Sinclair composed the alma mater for Coastal Carolina University. Bennie Lee Sinclair Bennie Lee Sinclair (April 15, 1939 – May 22, 2000) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She was named by Governor Richard Wilson Riley as the fifth South Carolina Poet Laureate from 1986 to 2000. Sinclair was born"
"also been the British Library Penguin Writer's Fellow, as well as a visiting lecturer, most frequently at the University of East Anglia, but also at the University of California, Santa Cruz, his special subjects being gothic fiction, creative writing, detective fiction, and Holocaust literature. His recent books include ""Clive Sinclair's True Tales of the Wild West"", ""A Soap Opera From Hell: Essays on the Facts of Life and the Facts of Death"" and ""Death & Texas"". Sinclair was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983. Sinclair died in March 2018, aged 70. A posthumous collection of"
"Mary Craig, Sinclair wrote or produced several films. Recruited by Charlie Chaplin, Sinclair and Mary Craig produced Eisenstein's ""¡Qué viva México!"" in 1930–32. Aside from his political and social writings, Sinclair took an interest in occult phenomena and experimented with telepathy. His book ""Mental Radio"" (1930) included accounts of his wife Mary's telepathic experiences and ability. William McDougall read the book and wrote an introduction to it, which led him to establish the parapsychology department at Duke University. Sinclair broke with the Socialist party in 1917 and supported the war effort. By the 1920s, however, he had returned to the"
"Sue Sinclair Sue Sinclair is an award-winning Canadian poet. She was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and studied at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, graduated in 1994 and then continued her education at the University of New Brunswick. She then went on to complete an MA & PhD in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Sinclair's first collection of poetry, ""Secrets of Weather and Hope"" (2001), was a finalist for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award. ""Mortal Arguments"" (2003) was a finalist for the Atlantic Poetry Prize. Her third collection, ""The Drunken Lovely Bird"", won the International"
"Babbitt (novel) Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle-class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by ""Babbitt"" was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in literature to Lewis in 1930. The word ""Babbitt"" entered the English language as a ""person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards"". After the social instability and sharp economic depression that followed World War I, many Americans in the 1920s saw business and city growth as foundations for"
"was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds."" He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a postage stamp in the Great Americans series. Born February 7, 1885, in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Sinclair Lewis began reading books at a young age and kept a diary. He had two siblings, Fred (born 1875) and Claude (born 1878). His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and a stern disciplinarian who had difficulty relating to his sensitive, unathletic third son. Lewis's mother,"
"such as ""Eisenstein on Disney"", have surfaced decades later as seminal scholarly texts used as curriculum in film schools around the world. Eisenstein and his entourage spent considerable time with Charlie Chaplin, who recommended that Eisenstein meet with a sympathetic benefactor in the person of American socialist author Upton Sinclair. Sinclair's works had been accepted by and were widely read in the USSR, and were known to Eisenstein. The two had mutual admiration and between the end of October 1930 and Thanksgiving of that year, Sinclair had secured an extension of Eisenstein's absences from the USSR, and permission for him"
"a raw food diet of predominantly vegetables and nuts. For long periods of time, he was a complete vegetarian, but he also experimented with eating meat. His attitude to these matters was fully explained in the chapter, ""The Use of Meat"", in the above-mentioned book. Fiction Autobiographical Non-fiction Drama As editor Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize"
"John Sinclair (poet) John Sinclair (born October 2, 1941) is an American poet, writer, and political activist from Flint, Michigan. Sinclair's defining style is jazz poetry, and he has released most of his works in audio formats. Most of his pieces include musical accompaniment, usually by a varying group of collaborators dubbed Blues Scholars. As an emerging young poet in the mid-1960s, Sinclair took on the role of manager for the Detroit rock band MC5. The band's politically charged music and its Yippie core audience dovetailed with Sinclair's own radical development. In 1968, while still working with the band, he"
"altered version. Not until 1981 did Dreiser's unaltered version appear when the University of Pennsylvania Press issued a scholarly edition based upon the original manuscript held by the New York Public Library. It is a reconstruction by a team of leading scholars to represent the novel before it was edited by hands other than Dreiser's. In his Nobel Prize Lecture of 1930, Sinclair Lewis said that ""Dreiser's great first novel, ""Sister Carrie"", which he dared to publish thirty long years ago and which I read twenty-five years ago, came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind,"
"died there in a nursing home on November 25, 1968, a year after his wife. He is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC, next to Willis. Sinclair devoted his writing career to documenting and criticizing the social and economic conditions of the early 20th century in both fiction and nonfiction. He exposed his view of the injustices of capitalism and the overwhelming effects of poverty among the working class. He also edited collections of fiction and nonfiction. His novel based on the meatpacking industry in Chicago, ""The Jungle,"" was first published in serial form in the socialist newspaper"
"American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. After returning to the United States in 1935, she continued writing prolifically, became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and minority groups, and wrote widely on Chinese and Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoption. Originally named Comfort by her parents, Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, to Caroline Maude (Stulting) (1857–1921) and Dr. Absalom Sydenstricker. Her parents, Southern Presbyterian missionaries, traveled to China soon after their marriage on July 8, 1880, but returned to the United States"
"community of Greenville County, South Carolina, which they moved into in 1976. Sinclair had suffered from diabetes and suffered many ailments over the last several years of her life. In 1993, she underwent a kidney transplant. She died of an apparent heart attack on May 22, 2000, in Greenville, South Carolina. Sinclair was one of the featured writers of the Southern Appalachian Writers Collection exhibition in the 1980s at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. The university still maintains the materials in that collection. Her 1990 book of poetry, ""Lord of Spring"", was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for"
"his work, entitled ""Shylock Must Die"" – based on the character Shylock – was published in July 2018. Clive Sinclair (author) Clive John Sinclair (19 February 1948 – 5 March 2018) was a British author who published several award-winning novels and collections of short stories, including ""The Lady with the Laptop"" and ""Bedbugs"". Sinclair, who was born into a Jewish family originally named Smolensky, grew up in Hendon, North London, and was educated at the University of East Anglia (BA, PhD), the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at the University of Exeter. Although his writing career began with short"
"Clive Sinclair (author) Clive John Sinclair (19 February 1948 – 5 March 2018) was a British author who published several award-winning novels and collections of short stories, including ""The Lady with the Laptop"" and ""Bedbugs"". Sinclair, who was born into a Jewish family originally named Smolensky, grew up in Hendon, North London, and was educated at the University of East Anglia (BA, PhD), the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at the University of Exeter. Although his writing career began with short stories that appeared in magazines and journals, his first book was a novel – ""Bibliosexuality"" – which was"
"Sinclair hoped ""Boston"" would win the Pulitzer Prize, but the chairman of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize Committee said his personal opinion was that its ""socialistic tendencies"" and ""special pleading"" made it unsuitable. When the Committee named John B. Oliver's ""Victim and Victor"" instead, Sinclair denounced the selection in a widely distributed letter that pointed out how that novel was as argumentative as ""Boston"" only for a more respectable cause. In the end, the Pulitzer advisory committee at the Columbia University School of Journalism overrode the Committee's choice and awarded the Pulitzer to Julia Peterkin's ""Scarlet Sister Mary"". ""Boston"" met with"
"Ronald Sinclair Ronald Sinclair (21 January 1924 – 22 November 1992), born Richard Arthur Hould and sometimes credited as Ra Hould or Ron Sinclair, was a child actor from New Zealand, turned film editor. Sinclair was a juvenile player turned film editor who retained his celebrity in his native New Zealand long after the end of his Hollywood acting career. Sinclair's feature credits include William Wellman's ""The Light That Failed,"" ""Tower of London"", Alexander Korda's ""That Hamilton Woman"" and Raoul Walsh's ""Desperate Journey"". He also appeared in a series of children's adventure films featuring the ""Five Little Peppers"". Sinclair also"
"novel about American life. The book dealt with the problems facing second-generation Russian Jewish immigrants, including a disdain for tradition and a shame over family. With the $10,000 prize, Seid was able to provide for herself and her family. It also helped that her novel earned respectful reviews. She went on to write three more novels: ""Sing at My Wake"" (McGraw, 1951); ""The Changelings"" (McGraw, 1955); and ""Anna Teller"" (McKay, 1960). Although ""Wasteland"" is the best known of Sinclair's novels, the later books seem more powerful and sensitive. Sinclair is much more successful when she presents female characters and when"
"zines, records, and documentaries highlighting John Sinclair's contribution to the historic cannabis legalisation effort, rock music in Detroit, and psychedelic communitarianism. John Sinclair has recorded several of his poems and essays. On these albums blues and jazz musicians provide psychedelic soundscapes to accompany his delivery: John Sinclair (poet) John Sinclair (born October 2, 1941) is an American poet, writer, and political activist from Flint, Michigan. Sinclair's defining style is jazz poetry, and he has released most of his works in audio formats. Most of his pieces include musical accompaniment, usually by a varying group of collaborators dubbed Blues Scholars. As"
"Sinclair Ross James Sinclair Ross, CM (January 22, 1908 – February 29, 1996) was a Canadian banker and author, best known for his fiction about life in the Canadian prairies. He is best known for his first novel, ""As For Me and My House"". Ross was born on a homestead near Shellbrook, Saskatchewan. When he was seven, his parents separated, and he lived with his mother on a number of different farms during his childhood, going to school in Indian Head, Saskatchewan. He left school after Grade 11 and in 1924 the sixteen-year-old Ross joined the Union Bank of Canada"
"in arguments. They married October 18, 1900. They used abstinence as their main form of birth control. Meta became pregnant with a child shortly after they married and attempted to abort it multiple times. The child was born on December 1, 1901, and named David. Meta and her family tried to get Sinclair to give up writing and get ""a job that would support his family."" Around 1911, Meta left Sinclair for the poet Harry Kemp, later known as the ""Dunes Poet"" of Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 1913, Sinclair married Mary Craig Kimbrough (1883–1961), a woman from an elite Greenwood, Mississippi,"
"the characters in the book, as well as living in the same artist's colony which served as the novel's setting. His sixth book was titled ""The Hills Look Down"", and was published in 1941, to positive reviews. Updegraff died in Paris on December 7, 1965, survived by his wife of over 40 years, Dora Loues Miller. Allan Eugene Updegraff Allan Eugene Updegraff (1883-1965) was an American-born novelist, poet, and editor. After he and his friend, Sinclair Lewis, dropped out of Yale during his junior year, he made a living working odd jobs, as well as writing stories for magazines and"
"that ""the flower of youth and the best manhood of the peoples [had] been mowed down,"" for example such notable casualties as the poets Isaac Rosenberg, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen, composer George Butterworth and physicist Henry Moseley. Members of the Lost Generation include Sinclair Lewis, who was the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, United States Army General George S. Patton, Russian-born composer Irving Berlin, American writer, reporter, and political commentator Walter Lippmann, Earl Warren, American theologian, ethicist, and commentator on politics Reinhold Niebuhr, Actresses Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, and Mae West, American poet"
"extremely frail by the mid-1950s, and died in Monrovia, California, on April 26, 1961, at the age of 78. Mary Craig Sinclair Mary Craig Sinclair (1882–1961) was a writer and the wife of Upton Sinclair. She was born Mary Craig Kimbrough in Greenwood, Mississippi on February 12, 1882, the oldest child of Mary Hunter (Southworth) and Allan McCaskill Kimbrough, a judge. Beginning at age 13, Mary studied at the Mississippi State College for Women (starting with what were essentially high school classes) and graduated from the Gardner School for Young Ladies in New York City in 1900. Her father was"
"Mary P. Sinclair Mary P. Sinclair (September 23, 1918 – January 14, 2011) was an American environmental activist and ""one of the nation’s foremost lay authorities on nuclear energy and its impact on the natural and human environment"". She was born Mary Jean Palcich, raised in Chisholm, Minnesota where she was high school valedictorian, then graduated from the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota. Subsequently, she was a teacher and editor for ""Chemical Industries"" magazine. She worked as a librarian at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where she met and married William Sinclair in 1945. After"