What fictional town was Sinclair Lewis' 'Main Street' set in?
On Oct. 23, 1920, the Sinclair Lewis novel "Main Street" was published, a satirical look at small-town complacency. What was the Minnesota town Lewis wrote about? A) Gopher Lake B) Gopher Prairie C) Gopher Heights For the answer, click the headline above...
B) "Main Street" was set in Gopher Prairie, a town modeled on Sauke Centre, Minn., Lewis' birthplace. For "Main Street" and novels such as "Arrowhead," Lewis, in 1930, would become the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
