lithub.com/this-week-in-literary-history-sinclair-lewis-wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature This Week in Literary History: Sinclair Lewis Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
On November 5, 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his lecture, he criticized American literary institutions and the pressure on novelists to glorify the country, while praising contemporaries such as Theodore Dreiser and Eugene O’Neill.
