World & Nation
Joseph Bissin’s letter (April 19) includes a too-common error of confusing Upton Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis--both notable American authors.
May 19, 1988
California
Saying “attorneys have ruined the world,” a gunman shot and killed his lawyer inside the Los Angeles County Law Library on Monday afternoon and then killed himself as dozens of people ran for cover, police and witnesses said.
June 2, 1992
Books
SINCLAIR LEWIS: Rebel from Main Street, By Richard Lingeman, Random House: 664 pp., $35
March 31, 2002
Business
In ‘It Can’t Happen Here,’ Sinclair Lewis foresaw not only that a coup would come from the right, but that it would come clothed in populist rhetoric.
Dec. 7, 2021
A century ago, Sinclair Lewis predicted how America would botch the coronavirus crisis.
July 13, 2020
Entertainment & Arts
This small prairie town has always felt ambivalent about being home to the quintessential Main Street.
March 29, 1993
In “Around The Town” on Nov. 11 (“Where Everybody Knows It All--And Your Name Too”) Beverly Beyette writes that American author Sinclair Lewis refused the Nobel Prize for literature.
Nov. 21, 1993
Sauk Centre, Minn., is ready to let bygones be bygones.
May 30, 1989
Matthew Broderick stars in a new adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’ 1922 satiric novel ‘Babbitt’ in a production at La Jolla Playhouse directed by artistic director Christopher Ashley.
Dec. 5, 2023
Who would have thought that one of the highlights of the theater year would be a radio show?
Nov. 26, 1987