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There was something of Babbitt in his creator, Sinclair Lewis, and there was something of Carol Kennicott in his first wife, Grace Hegger Lewis. Gracie was, Lewis once wrote, "all the good part of Carol." This lends an uncommon interest to what would otherwise be a commonplace biography-Grace's account of her years with...
Many Marriages. The Lewis married life also has been somewhat diverse. In 1914 he married Grace Livingstone Hegger. They were divorced in 1928. Their only son, Wells Lewis, was killed in World...
Killed in Action. Lieut. Wells Lewis, 27, sandy-haired son of Sinclair Lewis (by his first wife, now Mrs. Grace Hegger Casanova of Manhattan), himself a novelist (They Still Say No); in France...
Sued for Divorce. Sinclair Lewis, 56; by Dorothy Thompson, 47; in Woodstock, Vt.; grounds: willful desertion in 1936. They married in London in 1928, a year after she divorced Hungarian Writer Josef Bard, a month after Lewis was divorced by Writer Grace Hegger. Living apart for the last several years, they appeared in opposite corners of a public ring last summer when Interventionist Dorothy learned Lewis was plugging America First. Of his wife Lewis cracked to a Chicago lecture audience in 1939: "She disappeared into the NBC building ten years...
...memoirs. About the same time appeared the memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife, Frieda. While these memoirs spilled plenty of beans, at least they were withheld until their subjects were dead. Not so Half A Loaf, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel by Sinclair Lewis' exwife, Grace Hegger...