Sinclair Lewis Rebel From Main Street [Paperback]

In this definitive biography of Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt), Lingeman presents an empathetic, absorbing, and balanced portrait of an eccentric alcoholic-workaholic whose novels and stories exploded shibboleths with a volatile mixture of caricature and realism. Drawing on newly uncovered correspondence, diaries, and criticism, Lingeman gives new life to this prairie Mercutio out of Sauk Centre, Minnesota.

Lingeman's Sinclair Lewis is a model of its kind: vivid, but never overdrawn, written in a lean, wry prose that stays grounded in the documentary evidence. Wall Street Journal

The most important reevaluation of Lewis in more than a generation. Los Angeles Times

Readable, sensitive to nuance. . . . A warm tribute to the quarrelsome, interesting iconoclast. New York Review of Books