Bk. Buyer, 22 ('01): 99 (portrait).
Bookm. 36 ('12): 347 (portrait); 38 ('13): 233, 236 (portrait).
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1913, 1915-8.
+Edwin Lefevre+ (Colombia, South America, 1871)--novelist, short-story
writer.
Uses Wall Street as material. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in
America_.
+Sinclair Lewis+--novelist.
Born at Sauk Center, Minnesota, 1885. Son of a physician. A.B., Yale,
1907. During the next ten years was a newspaper man in Connecticut, Iowa,
and California, a magazine editor in Washington, D.C., and editor for New
York book publishers. During the last five years has been traveling in
the United States, living from one day to six months in the most diverse
places, and motoring from end to end of twenty-six states. While
supporting himself by short stories and experimental novels, he laid the
foundation for his unusually successful _Main Street_. His first book,
_Our Mr. Wrenn_, is said to contain a good deal of autobiography.