ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Lewis was very honored to be the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy awarded it to him in 1930, because of the five great novels he wrote in the 1920s, Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Dodsworth.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has become something of an enigma in the American literary canon.

Detailed explanation-3: -On November 5, 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded due to the strength of an author’s entire body of work.

Detailed explanation-4: -Upton Sinclair, in full Upton Beall Sinclair, (born September 20, 1878, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.-died November 25, 1968, Bound Brook, New Jersey), prolific American novelist and polemicist for socialism, health, temperance, free speech, and worker rights, among other causes.