Description
This study provides readers with a comprehensive view of novelist Sinclair Lewis as an avid reader and literary critic. The colorful allusions and satiric pronouncements of Americas first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature on books and writers prompted many readers during the first half of the 20th century to take up more and better reading. The study offers a biographical overview of the literary Lewis; insights into the novelists ideas on and images of readers and reading; details of Lewiss sweeping references to everyone from Homer to Norman Mailer; discussion of the authors reflections on the problems of writers and writing; and, finally, clarity on Lewiss attitudes toward literary critics and literary criticism not excluding the novelists conclusions about his own criticism and role as literary reviewer. In addition to a general index, the book includes a character index.
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