Everything seemed confused and contradictory, and he longed… - Sinclair Lewis

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Everything seemed confused and contradictory, and he longed for one clear command from a divine martinet. ~ Ch. 7

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Sinclair Lewis (7 February 1885 – 10 January 1951) was an American writer, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1930. He was the second husband of Dorothy Thompson, from 1928 to 1942.

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Pen Names: Tom Graham

Birth Name: Harry Sinclair Lewis

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Everything seemed confused and contradictory, and he longed for one clear command from a divine martinet. ~ Ch. 7 - Sinclair Lewis

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