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Mark Schorer

“I know more about the life of Sinclair Lewis,” so Mark Schorer has written, “day by day, sometimes hour by hour, than he himself could possibly have known or than I know of my own past.” For nine years Professor Schorer has immersed himself in his subject; the result, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life , is a monumental biography which McGraw-Hill will publish in October and from which this article is drawn. Professor Schorer, one of our most distinguished literary critics, teaches at the University of California.

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Main Street, October 1961 | Vol. 12, No. 6
With the publication of his acid-etched but enormously popular portrait of the American small town, Sinclair Lewis emerged as the spokesman for a new literary generation