Sinclair Lewis, in 1930, became the first American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for Babbitt--the story of a small-minded Realtor in the 1920s.

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Located on 300-acres of unspoiled Vermont countryside, Twin Farms occupies the former estate of Nobel-prize winning novelist Sinclair Lewis.

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Novelist Sinclair Lewis rose to fame in the 1920s (and won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature) by satirizing small-town small-mindedness, in Main Street and Babbitt.

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By the time Sinclair Lewis wrote his novel "Oil!"

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