Topic: Sinclair Lewis

Never too early to celebrate S.F. Ballet

0 . Even atop the tip of the holiday-party iceberg, it's never too early to think about our next fabulous fete. So S.F. Ballet trustee Lucy Jewett...

Garchik

0 . Gina King overheard it at Safeway in Moraga:. . Tot: "Can I have some candy?". . Dad: "No, not now.". . Tot: "Just one. Can I have just one?"...

Movie reviews: Elmer Gantry

Crude yet gregarious travelling salesman Elmer Gantry (Lancaster) decides that he has spent enough time selling vacuum cleaners and living in box cars fighting hobos for the right to keep his shoes. He also comes to think that enough time has elapsed ...
An American Novel" was one of two novels printed by Sinclair Lewis in 1917. " "The Job" is a serious novel, and is considered one of the earliest works by a major author (though Lewis would not gain fame for another three years ...
Sinclair Lewis was a great American author who bridged the gap from Mark Twain to Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck . In fact, John Steinbeck notes Sinclair Lewis as one of his biggest influences. Mr. Wrenn then spends weeks in England, where he ...
All throughout his life, even as a young boy, Lewis seemed to have a sense of adventure, of fantasy, as if he were actually living his own master work. Lewis' keen genius keyed into to what was already happening in the bowels ...
As I was completing a Masters Program in Preventive Medicine, the studies included much about Health Psychology and the World of Work. I never met him, but heard stories of how unhappy and irritable he was, even mean.I don't think ...
By Dave Bidini, Weekend Post. . 1. The Internet is the new TV The Internet has replaced television as the fastest thing on- screen, and because...

Franklin Library

History From its founding in 1973 until it closed permanently in 2000, the Franklin Library was one of the two largest publishers in the United States of leather bound books. Today, the high quality leather books produced by the Franklin Library are ...
FIVE  FAMOUS FOLKS FROM AMERICA BORN ON FEBRUARY 7th  LAURA INGALLS WILDER was  born in 1867, in Pepin, Wisconsin. She was an author who wrote The Little House Series based on her childhood. Her first book Little House in the Big Woods ...