Sinclair Lewis’ Death – Cause and Date
Born (Birthday) February 7, 1885
Death Date January 10, 1951
Age of Death 65 years
Cause of Death Heart Attack
Profession Novelist
The novelist Sinclair Lewis died at the age of 65. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Fiction writer who explored the topics of materialism and capitalism in America and is best known for his 1920 work, Main Street. For his 1925 novel, Arrowsmith, he was offered the Pulitzer Prize (which he refused to accept); the work was later adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film.
He married Vogue magazine editor, Grace Livingston Hegger, in 1914. The couple’s son, Wells, died in combat during World War II. With his second wife, journalist Dorothy Thompson, Lewis had another son, Michael.
Quotes
"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
"Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
"Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
"Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.