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together.

Legacy
Compared to his contemporaries, Lewis's reputation suffered a precipitous decline among literary
scholars throughout the 20th century.[40] Despite his enormous popularity during the 1920s, by the
21st century most of his works had been eclipsed in prominence by other writers with less commercial
success during the same time period, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.[41]

Since the 2010s there has been renewed interest in Lewis's work, in particular his 1935 dystopian
satire It Can't Happen Here. In the aftermath of the 2016 United States presidential election, It Can't
Happen Here surged to the top of Amazon's list of best-selling books.[42] Scholars have found
parallels in his novels to the COVID-19 crisis,[43] and to the rise of Donald Trump.[44]

He has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a postage stamp in the Great Americans series. In
1960 Polish American sculptor Joseph Kiselewski was commissioned to create a bust of Lewis, now in
the Great River Regional public library in Sauk Centre, MN.[45]

Works

Novels
1912: Hike and the Aeroplane (juvenile, as Tom Graham)
1914: Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a
Gentle Man
1915: The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness
of Life
1917: The Job
1917: The Innocents: A Story for Lovers
1919: Free Air
Serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, May 31, June 7,
June 14 and 21, 1919
1920: Main Street
1922: Babbitt
Excerpted in Hearst's International, October 1922
1925: Arrowsmith
1926: Mantrap
Serialized in Collier's, February 20, March 20 and April 24,
1926 Lewis in 1944.
1927: Elmer Gantry
1928: The Man Who Knew Coolidge: Being the Soul of
Lowell Schmaltz, Constructive and Nordic Citizen
1929: Dodsworth

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1933: Ann Vickers

Serialized in Redbook, August, November and December 1932
1934: Work of Art
1935: It Can't Happen Here
1938: The Prodigal Parents
1940: Bethel Merriday
1943: Gideon Planish
1945: Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives
Appeared in Cosmopolitan, July 1945.
1947: Kingsblood Royal
1949: The God-Seeker
1951: World So Wide (posthumous)
Babbitt, Mantrap and Cass Timberlane were published as Armed Services Editions during WWII.

Short stories
1907: "That Passage in Isaiah", The Blue Mule, May 1907
1907: "Art and the Woman", The Gray Goose, June 1907
1911: "The Way to Rome", The Bellman, May 13, 1911
1915: "Commutation: $9.17", The Saturday Evening Post, October 30, 1915
1915: "The Other Side of the House", The Saturday Evening Post, November 27, 1915
1916: "If I Were Boss", The Saturday Evening Post, January 1 and 8, 1916
1916: "I'm a Stranger Here Myself", The Smart Set, August 1916
1916: "He Loved His Country", Everybody's Magazine, October 1916
1916: "Honestly If Possible", The Saturday Evening Post, October 14, 191
1917: "Twenty-Four Hours in June", The Saturday Evening Post, February 17, 1917
1917: "The Innocents", Woman's Home Companion, March 1917
1917: "A Story with a Happy Ending", The Saturday Evening Post, March 17, 1917
1917: "Hobohemia", The Saturday Evening Post, April 7, 1917
1917: "The Ghost Patrol", The Red Book Magazine, June 1917
Adapted for the silent film The Ghost Patrol (1923)
1917: "Young Man Axelbrod", The Century, June 1917
1917: "A Woman by Candlelight", The Saturday Evening Post, July 28, 1917
1917: "The Whisperer", The Saturday Evening Post, August 11, 1917
1917: "The Hidden People", Good Housekeeping, September 1917
1917: "Joy-Joy", The Saturday Evening Post, October 20, 1917
1918: "A Rose for Little Eva", McClure's, February 1918
1918: "Slip It to 'Em", Metropolitan Magazine, March 1918
1918: "An Invitation to Tea", Every Week, June 1, 1918
1918: "The Shadowy Glass", The Saturday Evening Post, June 22, 1918
1918: "The Willow Walk", The Saturday Evening Post, August 10, 1918
1918: "Getting His Bit", Metropolitan Magazine, September 1918
1918: "The Swept Hearth", The Saturday Evening Post, September 21, 1918
1918: "Jazz", Metropolitan Magazine, October 1918

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1918: "Gladvertising", The Popular Magazine, October 7, 1918

1919: "Moths in the Arc Light", The Saturday Evening Post, January 11, 1919
1919: "The Shrinking Violet", The Saturday Evening Post, February 15, 1919
1919: "Things", The Saturday Evening Post, February 22, 1919
1919: "The Cat of the Stars", The Saturday Evening Post, April 19, 1919
1919: "The Watcher Across the Road", The Saturday Evening Post, May 24, 1919
1919: "Speed", The Red Book Magazine, June 1919
1919: "The Shrimp-Colored Blouse", The Red Book Magazine, August 1919
1919: "The Enchanted Hour", The Saturday Evening Post, August 9, 1919
1919: "Danger—Run Slow", The Saturday Evening Post, October 18 and 25, 1919
1919: "Bronze Bars", The Saturday Evening Post, December 13, 1919
1920: "Habeas Corpus", The Saturday Evening Post, January 24, 1920
1920: "Way I See It", The Saturday Evening Post, May 29, 1920
1920: "The Good Sport", The Saturday Evening Post, December 11, 1920
1921: "A Matter of Business", Harper's, March 1921
1921: "Number Seven to Sagapoose", The American Magazine, May 1921
1921: "The Post-Mortem Murder", The Century, May 1921
1923: "The Hack Driver", The Nation, August 29, 1923[46]
1929: "He Had a Brother", Cosmopolitan, May 1929
1929: "There Was a Prince", Cosmopolitan, June 1929
1929: "Elizabeth, Kitty and Jane", Cosmopolitan, July 1929
1929: "Dear Editor", Cosmopolitan, August 1929
1929: "What a Man!", Cosmopolitan, September 1929
1929: "Keep Out of the Kitchen", Cosmopolitan, October 1929
1929: "A Letter from the Queen", Cosmopolitan, December 1929
1930: "Youth", Cosmopolitan, February 1930
1930: "Noble Experiment", Cosmopolitan, August 1930
1930: "Little Bear Bongo", Cosmopolitan, September 1930
Adapted for the animated feature film Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
1930: "Go East, Young Man", Cosmopolitan, December 1930
1931: "Let's Play King", Cosmopolitan, January, February and March 1931
1931: "Pajamas", Redbook, April 1931
1931: "Ring Around a Rosy", The Saturday Evening Post, June 6, 1931
1931: "City of Mercy", Cosmopolitan, July 1931
1931: "Land", The Saturday Evening Post, September 12, 1931
1931: "Dollar Chasers", The Saturday Evening Post, October 17 and 24, 1931
1935: "The Hippocratic Oath", Cosmopolitan, June 1935
1935: "Proper Gander", The Saturday Evening Post, July 13, 1935
1935: "Onward, Sons of Ingersoll!", Scribner's, August 1935
1936: "From the Queen", Argosy, February 1936
1941: "The Man Who Cheated Time", Good Housekeeping, March 1941
1941: "Manhattan Madness", The American Magazine, September 1941
1941: "They Had Magic Then!", Liberty, September 6, 1941
1943: "All Wives Are Angels", Cosmopolitan, February 1943

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1943: "Nobody to Write About", Cosmopolitan, July 1943

1943: "Green Eyes—A Handbook of Jealousy", Cosmopolitan, September and October 1943
1943: Harri
Serialized in Good Housekeeping, August, September 1943 ISBN 978-1523653508(novella)

The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1904–1949)

Samuel J. Rogal edited The Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis (1904–1949), a seven-volume set
published in 2007 by Edwin Mellen Press. The first attempt to collect all of Lewis's short stories.[47]

Volume 1 (June 1904 – January 1916) ISBN 9780773454873

Volume 2 (August 1916 – October 1917) ISBN 9780773454897
Volume 3 (January 1918 – February 1919) ISBN 9780773454910
Volume 4 (February 1919 – May 1921) ISBN 9780773454194
Volume 5 (August 1923 – April 1931) ISBN 9780773453562
Volume 6 (June 1931 – March 1941) ISBN 9780773453067
Volume 7 (September 1941 – May 1949) ISBN 9780773452763

Articles
1915: "Nature, Inc.", The Saturday Evening Post, October 2, 1915
1917: "For the Zelda Bunch", McClure's, October 1917
1918: "Spiritualist Vaudeville", Metropolitan Magazine, February 1918
1919: "Adventures in Autobumming: Gasoline Gypsies", The Saturday Evening Post, December
20, 1919
1919: "Adventures in Autobumming: Want a Lift?", The Saturday Evening Post, December 27,
1919
1920: "Adventures in Autobumming: The Great American Frying Pan", The Saturday Evening
Post, January 3, 1920

Plays
1919: Hobohemia
1934: Jayhawker: A Play in Three Acts (with Lloyd Lewis)
1936: It Can't Happen Here (with John C. Moffitt)
1938: Angela Is Twenty-Two (with Fay Wray)
Adapted for the feature film This Is the Life (1944)

Screenplay
1943: Storm In the West (with Dore Schary – unproduced)[32]

Poems
1907: "The Ultra-Modern", The Smart Set, July 1907
1907: "Dim Hours of Dusk", The Smart Set, August 1907
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1907: "Disillusion", The Smart Set, December 1907

1909: "Summer in Winter", People's Magazine, February 1909
1912: "A Canticle of Great Lovers", Ainslee's Magazine, July 1912

Forewords
1942: Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait (by Paxton Hibben; publisher: The Press of the
Readers Club, NY NY)

Books
1915: Tennis As I Play It (ghostwritten for Maurice McLoughlin)[48]
1926: John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer
1929: Cheap and Contented Labor: The Picture of a Southern Mill Town in 1929
1935: Selected Short Stories of Sinclair Lewis
1952: From Main Street to Stockholm: Letters of Sinclair Lewis, 1919–1930 (edited by Alfred
Harcourt and Oliver Harrison)
1953: A Sinclair Lewis Reader: Selected Essays and Other Writings, 1904–1950 (edited by Harry
E. Maule and Melville Cane)
1962: I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories (edited by Mark Schorer)
1962: Sinclair Lewis: A Collection of Critical Essays (edited by Mark Schorer)
1985: Selected Letters of Sinclair Lewis (edited by John J. Koblas and Dave Page)
1997: If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis (edited by Anthony Di Renzo)
2000: Minnesota Diary, 1942–46 (edited by George Killough)
2005: Go East, Young Man: Sinclair Lewis on Class in America (edited by Sally E. Parry)
2005: The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis (edited by Sally E. Parry)

See also
Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home
The Palmer House (Sauk Centre)

References

Citations
1. "Sinclair Lewis" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130204062744/http://www.biography.com/people/s
inclair-lewis-9381356). Biography.com. Archived from the original (http://www.biography.com/peopl
e/sinclair-lewis-9381356) on February 4, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
2. Bode, Carl (1969) Mencken. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. p. 166.
3. Jenny Stringer, ed. (1994). "Lewis, Sinclair". The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century
Literature in English (https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780192122711.001.
0001/acref-9780192122711-e-1665). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-212271-1.
Retrieved January 23, 2024. "he was the son of a country doctor of Welsh descent"
4. Schorer, 3–22.
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