Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis

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In this masterful satire of early 20th century American life, Sinclair Lewis introduces George F. Babbitt, a prosperous partner at a real-estate firm in the fictitious town of Zenith. In the novel, Babbitt becomes unhappy with the ritualized and highly conformist life that he is leading and attempts to make it more gratifying. Unfortunately, accomplishing that task would take more character than our hero possesses and he relapses back into the vacuous rituals he intended to leave behind. Babbitt was first published in 1922, but many readers find that the satire still applies to modern American life.

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Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer and playwright famous for becoming the first American awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. He was recognized “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters”. During his acceptance speech he praised some of his contemporaries including Ernest Hemmingway, Theodore Dreiser, and Willa Cather.
After his graduation from Yale in 1908, Sinclair bounced from job to job like so many other writers. In addition to working for newspapers and publishing houses, Lewis produced a number of popular (if not acclaimed) short stories. He also earned money by writing some plotlines for Jack London.

Sinclair Lewis began taking notes for a realistic portrayal of small-town life in 1916 ultimately publishing Main Street in October 1920. Lewis did not anticipate selling more that 25,000 copies of Main Street, but sales topped two million within a few years. The masterful satire Babbitt – a novel that Lewis dedicated to Edith Wharton – would follow in 1922.

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