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3, 1915-8. +Edwin Lefevre+ (Colombia, South America, 1871)--novelist, short-story writer. Uses Wall Street as material. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_. +Sinclair Lewis+--novelist. Born at Sauk Center, Minnesota, 1885. Son of a physician. A.B., Yale, 1907. During the next ten years was a newspaper man in Connecticut, Iowa, and California, a magazine editor in Washington, D.C., and editor for New York book publishers. During the last five years has been traveling in the United States, living from one day to six months in the most diverse places, and motoring from end to end of twenty-six states. While supporting himself by short stories and experimental novels, he laid the foundation for his unusually successful _Main Street_. His first book, _Our Mr. Wrenn_, is said to contain a good deal of autobiography. SUGGESTIONS FOR READING 1. Do you recognize Gopher Prairie as a type? Is Mr. Lewis's picture photography, caricature, or the kind of portraiture that is art? Or to what degree do you find all these elements? 2. Is the main interest of the book in the story? in the characterization? in the satire? or in an element of propaganda? 3. What is to be said of the constructive theory of living proposed by the heroine? Is it better or worse than the standard that prevailed before she went to Gopher Prairie to live? 4. Explain the success of the book. What, if any, elements of permanent value do you find? What conspicuous defects? BIBLIOGRAPHY Our Mr. Wrenn. 1914. The Trail of the Hawk. 1915. The Job. 1917. The Innocents. 1917. Free Air. 1919. *Main Street. 1920. Babbitt. 1922. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Am. M. 91 ('21): Apr., p. 16 (portrait). Bookm. 39 ('14): 242, 248 (portrait); 54 ('21): 9. (Archibald Marshall.) Freeman, 2 ('20): 237. Lit. Digest, 68 ('21): Feb. 12, p. 28 (portrait). New Repub. 25 ('20): 20. Sat. Rev. 132 ('21): 230. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920. +Ludwig Lewisohn+--critic. Born at Berlin, Germany. 1882. Brought to America, 1890. A.B., and A.M., College of Charleston, 1901 (Litt. D., 1914); A.M., Columbia, 1903. Editorial work and writing for magazines, 1904-10. Translator from the German. College instructor and professor, 1910-19. Dramatic editor of _The Nation_, 1919--. BIBLIOGRAPHY The Modern Drama. 1915. A Modern Book of Criticism. 1919. Up Stream, an American Chronicle. 1922. The Drama and
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