Sinclair Lewis
(February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951)
3028 Q St. NW, Georgetown neighborhood, DC.
The first American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1930), Lewis lived and worked in DC during what would be his most productive period. He wrote his classic books Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), and Arrowsmith (1925) while living in the capital.
Lewis wrote 23 novels, as well as plays and short fiction. His other novels include Elmer Gantry (1927), and Dodsworth (1929), both adapted into movies, as well as It Can't Happen Here (1935), Kingsblood Royal (1947), and the posthumous World So Wide (1951).
1639 19th St. NW, Dupont Circle neighborhood, DC.
Author photo courtesy of Library of Congress.
