Sinclair Lewis Foundation
Official Sinclair Lewis Foundation Web Site
Sinclair Lewis Foundation
Nobel Prize
Official Nobel Prize Web Site
Sinclair Lewis-Autobiography
Sinclair Lewis-Nobel Lecture
The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930
The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930 Presentation Speech
Articles & Essays
The New Yorker
No Brakes: A New Biography of Sinclair Lewis
The New York Review of Books
The Romance of Sinclair Lewis
The New York Times
After 60 Years, a Promise Kept to Sinclair Lewis
The Daily Beast
American Dreams: “Babbitt” by Sinclair Lewis
Current Objectives of Graduate Studies
The Organization Man Still Matters: Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt (1922)
The Culture Trip: Minnesota
Sinclair Lewis: Unravelling the American Dream
The Atlantic
Sinclair Lewis and the Nobel Prize
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Reflections on Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith: The Great American Novel of Public Medicine (pdf)
Biographies
(These biographies have not been reviewed for worth or accuracy)
Sinclair Lewis’ Minnesota Boyhood by Sheldon Grebstein (pdf)
Edith Wharton’s World: Portrait of People and Places
Interviews
Interviews about It Can’t Happen Here
- The Trump Era’s Top-Selling Dystopian Novels
- Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here: Renewed Interest in Novel About Rise of US Fascism
Interviews with Richard Lingeman about his biography Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street.
- “Richard Lingeman and the New Sinclair Lewis Biography,” an interview of Richard Lingeman, by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
- Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street an interview of Richard Lingeman, by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
Holdings & Archives
Beineke Library, Yale University
The largest collection of Sinclair Lewis’s papers, including manuscripts, letters, and his Nobel Prize, as well as his Childe Hassam paintings and the unpublished Over the Body of Lucy Jade.
Minnesota Historical Society
This collection has some of Lewis’s works, as well as some personal papers.
The Port Washington Public Library
The holdings here include Lewis’s letters, manuscripts, photographs, theatrical items, etc.
St. Cloud State University Archives
These archives include Lewis family papers, including many pictures and correspondence. Two recordings of Lewis are a radio speech and a pilot for a radio show.
Syracuse University
The official repository of Dorothy Thompson’s papers, including correspondence, diaries, legal documents, typescript and published versions of her columns, some Lewis manuscripts, and most of Lewis’s unpublished plays.
Book Collectors
(The Sinclair Lewis Society is not affiliated with any collectors.)
Alibris
Abe Books
Book Finder
Second Sale