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<p> These commentaries, reminiscences, testaments, and apologias convey a convincing portrait of Sinclair Lewis, an argumentatively serious writer who lived out the sadness of a life marked by self-contradiction and spiritual ambiguity, though greatly successful for a time both critically and financially. --George Monteiro, author of Stephen Crane's Blue Badge of Courage and Fernando Pessoa and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literature

The new book is welcome not only because it finds fresh sources but also because it is the first one-volume collection of firsthand material on Lewis, and it is certainly the first effort to tell his life story through primary texts....The new book's distinctive achievement is that it brings readers close to a wide range of commentators, many of them very perceptive, who had the advantage of observing this important American novelist during his lifetime. --<i>Resources for American Literary Study</i>

The new book is welcome not only because it finds fresh sources but also because it is the first one-volume collection of firsthand material on Lewis, and it is certainly the first effort to tell his life story through primary texts.The new book s distinctive achievement is that it brings readers close to a wide range of commentators, many of them very perceptive, who had the advantage of observing this important American novelist during his lifetime. Resources for American Literary Study

The new book is welcome not only because it finds fresh sources but also because it is the first one-volume collection of firsthand material on Lewis, and it is certainly the first effort to tell his life story through primary texts....The new book's distinctive achievement is that it brings readers close to a wide range of commentators, many of them very perceptive, who had the advantage of observing this important American novelist during his lifetime. --Resources for American Literary Study

These commentaries, reminiscences, testaments, and apologias convey a convincing portrait of Sinclair Lewis, an argumentatively serious writer who lived out the sadness of a life marked by self-contradiction and spiritual ambiguity, though greatly successful for a time both critically and financially. --George Monteiro, author of Stephen Crane's Blue Badge of Courage and Fernando Pessoa and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literature

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Gary Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books and editor of the journal American Literary Realism. Matthew Hofer is an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He coedited, with Gary Scharnhorst, Oscar Wilde in America and has published essays in Modernism/ Modernity, Contemporary Literature, New German Critique, and American Literary Scholarship.

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