Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gracie Was a Lady. She met Harry Sinclair Lewis after he had come to Manhattan from his native Sauk Center, Minn., via Yale. It happened in 1912 when young Hal-his friends called him "Red" for his thin, gingerish thatch-saw a lady across a tearoom. It was Grace Hegger...
Being a Famooser. The couple went to Sauk Center to visit the family and found themselves strangers, whereupon Lewis turned his home town into Main Street, an overnight literary sensation. Lewis was then 35, and Gracie thinks fame came too early. He and Gracie and their 3-year-old son...
He met everyone from Osbert Sitwell to Lady Astor, and of course Wells met Wells. The British were eager to see in Main Street support for the comforting conviction that Americans, though rich, were a pretty uncouth lot. So Lewis was warmly received, but not all appreciated his japeries. When...
You Are the Cream. Gracie put up with this sort of thing and much more. After all, Hal was not as bad as that young F. Scott Fitzgerald. But sadness enters the book as Lewis begins to struggle with the intangibles of his trade. He never developed anything but the...
As for the end of the real Lewis - still drinking, restless and unhappy about God and man - Gracie has little to say except to quote his second wife, Dorothy Thompson: "Maybe Sinclair Lewis did not love God. But I am sure that God loves him."