"One of the outstanding
biographies of our time."
-John Mason Brown
MARK SCHORER'S
SINCLAIR
LE S
An American Life
Here is an unsparing, compellingly sympathetic'
portrait of one of America's greatest and most
tragic literary figures ... Sinclair Lewis.
The life of this brilliant, tormented
man was even more dramatic, more
startling, than any of his own cele–
brated novels. He was the first
American to receive the Nobel
Prize, and one of the most success-
ful American authors of all time - yet he was a hopeless alcoholic,
a failure as a father and husband, and a restless, embittered wanderer
to the end of hi$ days.
Now Mark Schorer, the eminent literary critic, traces Lewis'
life and loves, his obsessive preoccupation with work and women,
his rise as a writer and his downfall as a man. This new biography
does full justice to the monumental stature of its hero. Book-of-the–
Month Club selection for OctOber.·s
$10.00, now at your bookstore
. '..'"
McGRAW-IfILL
