Anthony Burgess vs. Sinclair Lewis
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Anthony Burgess
1917 – 1993
John Anthony Burgess Wilson was an English writer and composer.
"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."
Sinclair Lewis
1885 – 1951
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).
"He was an actor of genius. There was no more overwhelming actor on the stage, in the motion pictures, nor even in the pulpit. He would whirl arms, bang tables, …"
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