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SINCLAIR LEWIS
First Day of Issue: March 21, 1985
First Issue Location: Sauk Centre, Minnesota
The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature,
novelist Sinclair Lewis gained international fame for his
satirical novels. Although his books were often sur-
rounded by controversy, Sinclair Lewis gained great
popularity as a novelist. Lewis first gained a reputation
as a serious writer with his novel Main Street which was
published in 1920. Patterned after his own hometown
of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Main Street probed the com-
mercial values and lack of individuality in small-town
America. Launched by the success of Main Street, Lewis
continued to write popular novels including Babbitt and
Arrowsmith. Receiving the same acclaim and con-
troversy as his earlier works, Arrowsmith examined cor-
ruption in the medical society. This novel not only won
Lewis the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, but it was instrumental
in his becoming the first American to win the Nobel
Prize for Literature. In honor of the 100th anniversary of
Sinclair Lewis' birth, the United States Postal Service
issued the stamp featured on this Maximum Card.
No. 85-13
©1985 The Maximum Card Collection
A Division of Unicover Corporation . Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
Original painting by John Benson.
