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* UnbuiltTrope: Many of his books were satires of middle-class American life that call to mind what we would now recognize as StepfordSuburbia... in TheRoaringTwenties, when the middle class was still fairly small (if rapidly growing) and suburbia as we know it barely existed.
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* UnbuiltTrope: Many of his books were satires of middle-class American life that call to mind what we would now recognize as StepfordSuburbia... in TheRoaringTwenties, when the middle class was still fairly small (if rapidly growing) and suburbia as we know it barely existed. ''Main Street'' in particular reads like a takedown of a [[Series/HallmarkHallOfFame Hallmark Channel original movie]] ninety years before those took off.
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* WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames: ''Babbitt'', which satirizes American society and culture. has supporting characters with names like Vergil Gunch, Professor Joseph K. Pumphrey, Chester "Chet" Laylock, Mat Penniman, T. Cholmondeley "Chum" Frink, Tanis Judique, and Carrie Nork.
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* WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames: ''Babbitt'', which satirizes American society and culture. culture has supporting characters with names like Vergil Gunch, Professor Joseph K. Pumphrey, Chester "Chet" Laylock, Mat Penniman, T. Cholmondeley "Chum" Frink, Tanis Judique, and Carrie Nork.
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* WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames: ''Babbitt'', which satirizes American society and culture. has supporting characters with names like Vergil Gunch, Professor Joseph K. Pumphrey, Chester "Chet" Laylock, Mat Penniman, T. Cholmondeley "Chum" Frink, Tanis Judique and Carrie Nork.
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* UnbuiltTrope: Many of his books were satires of middle-class American life that call to mind what we would now recognize as StepfordSuburbia... in TheRoaringTwenties, when the middle class was still fairly small (if rapidly growing) and suburbia as we know it barely existed.
* WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames: ''Babbitt'', which satirizes American society and culture. has supporting characters with names like Vergil Gunch, Professor Joseph K. Pumphrey, Chester "Chet" Laylock, Mat Penniman, T. Cholmondeley "Chum" Frink, TanisJudique Judique, and Carrie Nork.
* WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames: ''Babbitt'', which satirizes American society and culture. has supporting characters with names like Vergil Gunch, Professor Joseph K. Pumphrey, Chester "Chet" Laylock, Mat Penniman, T. Cholmondeley "Chum" Frink, Tanis
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Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American author and the first American winner of the UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature. (He also won a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize, which he rejected). He achieved fame for his satiric portrayals of American life. His novels ''Main Street'', ''Babbitt'', ''Elmer Gantry'' and ''It Can't Happen Here'' remain well known, though many of his other novels remain in print as well. The film ''Film/{{Dodsworth}}'' is based on one of his novels. "Little Bear Bongo", which he wrote as short story for ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine, was adapted by Creator/WaltDisney in 1947 as a segment of the animated feature film ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree''.
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Harry Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American author and the first American winner of the UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature. (He also won a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize, which he rejected). He achieved fame for his satiric portrayals of American life. His novels ''Main Street'', ''Babbitt'', ''Elmer Gantry'' and ''It Can't Happen Here'' remain well known, though many of his other novels remain in print as well. The film ''Film/{{Dodsworth}}'' is based on one of his novels. "Little Bear Bongo", which he wrote as short story for ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine, was adapted by Creator/WaltDisney in 1947 as a segment of the animated feature film ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree''.
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Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American author and the first American winner of the UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature. (He also won a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize, which he rejected). He achieved fame for his satiric portrayals of American life. His novels ''Main Street'', ''Babbitt'', ''Elmer Gantry'' and ''It Can't Happen Here'' remain well known, though many of his other novels remain in print as well. The film ''Film/{{Dodsworth}}'' is based on one of his novels. "Little Bear Bongo", which he wrote as short story for ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine, was adapted by Creator/WaltDisney in 1947 as a segment of the animated feature film ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree''.
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Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American author and the first American winner of the UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature. (He also won a UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize, which he rejected). He achieved fame for his satiric portrayals of American life. His novels ''Main Street'', ''Babbitt'', ''Elmer Gantry'' and ''It Can't Happen Here'' remain well known, though many of his other novels remain in print as well. The film ''Film/{{Dodsworth}}'' is based on one of his novels. "Little Bear Bongo", which he wrote as short story for ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine, was adapted by Creator/WaltDisney in 1947 as a segment of the animated feature film ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree''.
''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree''.
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* FictionalProvince: Lewis used the fictional state of Winnemac, with its biggest city Zenith and a smaller town named Springfield as locations for his books.
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* FictionalProvince: Lewis used the fictional state of Winnemac, with its biggest city Zenith and a smaller town named Springfield Springfield, as locations for his books.
