Author:
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.
Imprint:New York, Random House [1953]
Descriptionxvi, 371 p. : port. ; 22 cm.
Note:The American fear of literature (Nobel Prize address). - Letter to the Pulitzer Prize committee. - Unpublished introduction to Babbitt. - Seeing red (on communism). - The artist, the scientist and the peace. - A note about Kingsblood Royal. - A letter on religion. - Self-portrait (Berlin, August, 1927). - Self-portrait (Nobel Foundation). - My first day in New York. - Two Yale men in utopia. - Breaking into print. - I'm an old newspaperman myself. - Early publishing days. - A note on book collecting. - The death of Arrowsmith. - Launcelot. - Suckling and lovelace. - Editor's table. - In praise of south middle. - Unknown undergraduates. - The world police. - Pre-war, post-war, post-crash America. - Two leters to Carl Van Doren. - The American scene in fiction. - Gentlemen, this is revolution. - Fools, liars and Mr. DeVoto. - A pilgrim's progress. - Introduction to Four Days on the Webutuck River. - A hamlet of the plains. - Introductory remarks. - Preface to Fathers and Sons. - No flight to Olympus. - A letter on style. - My maiden effort. - Rambling thoughts on literature as a business. - How I wrote a novel on trains and beside the kitchen sink. - Obscenity and obscurity. - Introduction to Main Street. - Introduction to Selected Short Stories. - The art of dramatization. - Novelist Bites Art. - Foreward to Henry Ward Beecher: an American portrait. - The great recorder. - One-man revolution. - William Lyon Phelps. - Our friend, H. G. - This golden half-century. - The long arm of the small town. - Minnesota, the norse state. - Back to Vermont. - Americans in Italy: 1. Mr. Eglantine; 2. Ann Kullmer. - Is America a paradise for women? - Main street's been paved. - Relation of the novel to the present. - Social unrest: the passing of capitalism. - Cheap and contented labor.
