Author:Harry Sinclair Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis
(1885–1951)

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American author of novels, short stories, and plays; the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. His works are known for their critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars, and for his strong characterizations of modern working women.

Works

Novels

Hike and the Aeroplane (1912, as Tom Graham)
Our Mr. Wrenn (1914) (transcription project)
The Trail of the Hawk (1915)
The Innocents (1917) (transcription project)
The Job (1917)
Free Air (1919)
Main Street (1920) (transcription project)
Babbitt (1922)
Arrowsmith (1925)
Mantrap (1926) (transcription project)
Elmer Gantry (1927)
The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928)
Dodsworth (1929)
Ann Vickers (1933)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2029 due to Renewal R251368
Work of Art (1934)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2030 due to Renewal R270489
It Can't Happen Here (1935)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2031 due to Renewal R303502
Selected Short Stories (1935)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2031 due to Renewal R297762
The Prodigal Parents (1938)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2034 due to Renewal R354657
Bethel Merriday (1940)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2036 due to Renewal R406928
All Wives Are Angels (In Hearst's international cosmopolitan, Feb. 1943, 1942)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2038 due to Renewal R484594
A Feather in His Hat (1943)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2039 due to Renewal R485893
Gideon Planish (1943)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2039 due to Renewal R483895
Reverse English (1943)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2039 due to Renewal R483894
Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives (1st pub. in Cosmopolitan May-Oct. 1945. NM: additions, 1945)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2041 due to Renewal R550603
Kingsblood Royal (1947)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2043 due to Renewal R578723
The God-Seeker (1949)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2045 due to Renewal R661724
World So Wide (Serialized version prev. pub. in Woman's home companion, Jan.-Feb. 1951, 1951)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2047 due to Renewal RE024745

Short stories

"Hobohemia" (Saturday Evening Post, April 7, 1917)
"The Cat of the Stars" (Saturday Evening Post, 1919)
"The Ghost Patrol" (The Red Book Magazine, 1917)
"The Good Sport" (Saturday Evening Post, Dec 11, 1920)
"If I Were Boss" (Saturday Evening Post, Jan 1, 1916)
"The Kidnaped Memorial" (Pictorial Review, 1919)
"A Matter of Business" (Harpers Monthly, 1921)
"Moths in the Arc Light" (Saturday Evening Post, 1919)
"The Post-Mortem Murder" (Century, 1921) (transcription project)
"Speed" (The Red Book Magazine, 1919)
"Things" (Saturday Evening Post, 1919)
"The Willow Walk" (Saturday Evening Post, 1918)
"Young Man Axelbrod" (Century, 1917)

Non-fiction

John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer (1926)

Works about Lewis

"The Significance of Sinclair Lewis" (1924), an essay by Stuart Pratt Sherman

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1951, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 73 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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