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Sinclair Lewis Babbitt

American novelist, playwright, and social critic, Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Center, a prairie village in the heart of Minnesota, as the third son of a country doctor. His mother, who was the daughter of a Canadian physician, died of tuberculosis when Lewis was six years old. His father remarried a year later Isabel Warner. Lewis considered her psychically his own mother. She read to him and he had access to the three or four hundred volumes, exclusive of medical books, in his father's library. Later Lewis characterized Sauk Center "narrow-minded and socially provincial" and books offered him one way of escape. His life was also made miserable by teasing – he was strange-looking with his red hair and very bad skin. At the age of 13 Lew

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