US novelist
attacked complacency of middle-class small-town American life
wrote novels "Hike and the Aeroplane" 1912 (under pseudonym Tom Graham), "Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man" 1914, "The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life" 1915, "The Job: An American Novel" 1917, "The Innocents: A Story for Lovers" 1917, "Free Air" 1919, "Main Street" 1920 (orig. "Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott"), "Babbitt" 1922, "Arrowsmith" 1925 (Pulitzer Prize for fiction 1926
declined), "Mantrap" 1926, "Elmer Gantry" 1927, "The Man Who Knew Coolidge: Being the Soul of Lowell Schmaltz, Constructive and Nordic Citizen" 1928, "Dodsworth" 1929, "Ann Vickers" 1933, "Work of Art" 1934, "It Can't Happen Here" 1935, "The Prodigal Parents" 1938, "Bethel Merriday" 1940, "Gideon Planish" 1943, "Cass Tamberlaine: A Novel of Husbands and Wives" 1945, "Kingsblood Royal" 1947, "The God-Seeker" 1949, "World So Wide" 1951, play "Hobohemia" 1919, co-wrote plays "Jayhawker" 1934, "It Can't Happen Here" 1936, "Angela Is Twenty-Two" 1938
Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 (1st US recipient)
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