There is no mention of Sinclair Lewis' other twenty novels or of the fact that he was the first American novelist to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. In adult life, Lewis was known to his friends as "Red."īehind the graves is the granite family monument. Sinclair, a New Lisbon, Wisconsin, dentist. Lewis named his son at birth in honor of a friend, Dr. The surmise that the name Sinclair was assumed later while Lewis was connected with the Utopian schemes of Upton Sinclair is incorrect. Lewis, and his mother, Emma Kermott Lewis, who died when Harry, as he was then called, was six years old.
It is the middle stone of three, for the famous son is buried between his father, Dr. The above is the inscription on an unpretentious marker in the cemetery of Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
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