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Sinclair Lewis

An American author. He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Carol Kennicott tires of physician husband Will and tries to bring culture to dull Gopher Prairie, Minnesota [based on Sauk Centre]

Martin Arrowsmith, a bacteriologist, goes to Vermont farm and West Indies

Zenith, the Zip City: George F. Babbitt, real estate broker, fears ostracism but encourages son Tom to rebel

Kansas City: ex-football player Elmer Gantry becomes popular but hypocritical minister

Berzelius Windrip sets up fascist dictatorship in US. Doremus Jessup and Walt Trowbridge in Canada oppose him