Happy Birthday, Sinclair Lewis

It's a big day in Sauk Centre: the birthday of Sinclair Lewis, its most (okay, only) famous son and the author of Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and other classic satires of 20th-century America. Lewis won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1930, the first American winner. Like his novels, Lewis was brilliant, funny, and mean. Unlike them, he was also drunk.