Sinclair Lewis Historical

Sinclair Lewis Historical (HM1V14)

Location: New York, NY 10014 New York County
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Country: United States of America
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N 40° 44.096', W 74° 0.237'

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February 7, 1885 - January 10, 1951

—69 Charles Street, Manhattan —

The first U.S. writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1930), novelist and short story writer, Sinclair Lewis, born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, was a graduate of Yale University; his earliest published work was in the Yale Literary Magazine, where he became an editor. After college, he apprenticed as a journalist and writer of short stories; and lived here from 1910 to 1913 while working at New York publishing houses as a copywriter, and editor. After 1916, he began work on a realistic novel criticizing small town conformity that became the best seller, Main Street (1920), following that two years later with Babbitt, a satire of middle-class boosterism set in the Midwest. Several of Lewis' novels were adapted for the movies, including Arrowsmith (1925) (for which he won, but turned down, a Pulitzer Prize), Elmer Gantry (1927), and Dodsworth (1929), also a Broadway play. Lewis wrote eleven more novels after his Nobel Prize, most notoriously, It Can't Happen Here (1936), which envisioned fascism coming to America. It was staged nationally by the Federal Theater. Lewis died in Italy in 1951.
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HM NumberHM1V14
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Year Placed2014
Placed ByHistoric Landmarks Preservation Center
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Date Added Thursday, October 13th, 2016 at 5:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)31N E 166021 N 0
Decimal Degrees40.73493333, -74.00395000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 44.096', W 74° 0.237'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 44' 5.76" N, 74° 0' 14.22" W
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Area Code(s)646, 917, 212, 347, 718
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling West
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 69 Charles St, New York NY 10014, US
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