February 7: Sinclair Lewis
On this date in 1885, the American novelist Sinclair Lewis was born. In 1930, he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.”
Main Street
Main Street audiobook from the Lit2Go website. Main Street is a satirical novel about small-town life, and is notable for the presence of a strong female protagonist. Reading level: 8.2. Word count: 183,821 in 39 chapters plus foreward.
