![]() Lingeman describes the avid-reading Lewis’s upbringing in a religious conservative rural world where hardworking citizens were the norm. Lewis’s accomplishments are impressive for a small town, Minnesota boy. I didn’t care for ‘It Can’t Happen Here,’ but I didn’t care for Foghorn Leghorn Trump either, so there you go. A fifth work, ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ (1935), came back into vogue when Donald Trump won the presidency. ![]() Four of his works (Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), and Elmer Gantry (1927)) are still popular. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and was the United States’ first Nobel Prize winner in literature. ![]() Lewis wrote twenty-one novels during his career. ![]() Lingeman’s biography about Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) is “Rebel from Main Street” and is apt. ![]()
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