Prominent pieces of political fiction have included the totalitarian dystopias of the early 20th century such as Jack London's The Iron Heel and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here.

Tolkien's concept of hobbits, in turn, seems to have been inspired by Edward Wyke Smith's 1927 children's book The Marvellous Land of Snergs, and by Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel Babbitt.

" Tolkien wrote to W. H. Auden that The Marvellous Land of Snergs " was probably an unconscious source-book for the Hobbits " and he told an interviewer that the word hobbit " might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt " ( like hobbits, George Babbitt enjoys the comforts of his home ).

* John Tyler Blake, " Sinclair Lewis's Kansas City Laboratory: The Genesis of Elmer Gantry.

According to Boulard ( 1998 ), " the most chilling and uncanny treatment of Huey by a writer came with Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here.

It is the birthplace of Sinclair Lewis, a novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and Sauk Centre served as the inspiration for Gopher Prairie, the fictional setting of Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street.

A sign in front of the library discusses Sinclair Lewis's Main Street ( novel ) | Main Street.

The publisher quotes praise by Dennis Smith, and a reviewer who characterizes Perry's New Auburn as spiritually located " somewhere between Garrison Keillor idyllic, sweet Lake Wobegon and the narrow-mindedness of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street.

* In Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel Elmer Gantry, a burly college student named Elmer Gantry who is heavily under the influence of his agnostic friend Jim Lefferts undergoes a seeming miraculous conversion to Baptist Christianity and is immediately invited to speak before an audience.

According to Boulard ( 1998 ), " the most chilling and uncanny treatment of Huey by a writer came with Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here.

" Illustration as Interpretation: Grant Wood's ' New Deal ' Reading of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street.

" In 1934, an earlier commentator, George Annand, had deduced and published a " Map of Sinclair Lewis's United States ," but the discovery of Lewis's own map showed significant differences.

* A Map of Sinclair Lewis's United States as It Appears in His Novels.

Library of Congress, shows a picture of A Map of Sinclair Lewis's United States as It Appears in His Novels George Annand, Illustrator New York, Doubleday, Doran, 1934 Geography & Map Division ( 60 )

* Sinclair Lewis's novel Arrowsmith is published in the United States, notable in having the culture of medical science as a principal theme.

He was the model for the character of Max Gottlieb in Sinclair Lewis's Pulitzer-winning novel Arrowsmith, the first great work of fiction to idealize and idolize pure science.

* Zenith is a city in Sinclair Lewis's fictional state of Winnemac, and the setting for his 1922 novel Babbitt.

From a critical perspective, Free Air is consistent with Sinclair Lewis's lean towards egalitarian politics, which he displays in his other works ( most notably in It Can't Happen Here ).

A thinly-disguised version of Dilling named ' Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch ' appears in Sinclair Lewis's 1930s novel It Can't Happen Here.

He directed Tom Sawyer ( 1930 ) starring Jackie Coogan in the title role ; Sinclair Lewis's Ann Vickers ( 1933 ) starring Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot, and Edna May Oliver ; and Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ) starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Frances Dee.

Sinclair Lewis's novel Kingsblood Royal uses hypodescent and the " one drop " principle as principal plot elements.

Besides its other associations, Updike may have chosen the name Rabbit for his character for its echo of Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, whose main theme " focuses on the power of conformity, and the vacuity of middle-class American life.

* Oil !, a novel by Upton Sinclair published in 1927

Television producer Delbert Mann cast Kelly as Bethel Merriday, an adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel of the same name, in her first of nearly sixty live television programs.

The novel It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, lists the exiles in Paris as " Jimmy Walker, and a few ex-presidents from South America and Cuba.

* Arrowsmith ( novel ), by Sinclair Lewis

Dodsworth is a satirical novel by American writer Sinclair Lewis first published by Harcourt Brace & Company in March 1929.

* The Jungle, a 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair

* The Jungle ( 1914 film ), a lost film based on the Upton Sinclair novel

Both Sinclair and Ackroyd's ideas in turn were further developed by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell in their graphic novel, From Hell, which speculated that Jack the Ripper used Hawksmoor's buildings as part of ritual magic, with his victims as human sacrifice.

Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 and published by Harcourt in March 1927.

In 1904 Warren commissioned Upton Sinclair to write a novel about immigrant workers in the Chicago meat packing houses.

Wayland provided Sinclair with a $ 500 advance and after seven weeks research he wrote the novel, The Jungle.

Students in the school are also called Main Streeters, or Streeters, which comes from the novel Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.

In his Nobel Prize Lecture of 1930, Sinclair Lewis said that " Dreiser's great first novel, Sister Carrie, which he dared to publish thirty long years ago and which I read twenty-five years ago, came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman ".

Upton Sinclair based his novel on the experiences of Edward L. Doheny, a prospector and oil tycoon living in the Silver City area ( near Kingston, New Mexico ).

When his novel, written according to the tenets of the New Realism literary movement ( established years before by Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis and others ) was published in 1930, many of the residents were convinced that his characters were based on local inhabitants, and considered the work a slander against the town.

In August 2006, two movie production units used locations in and around Marfa: the film There Will Be Blood, an adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel Oil !, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and the Coen Brothers ' adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel No Country for Old Men.

* In Sinclair Lewis ' 1920 novel Main Street, heroine Carol Milford is a former Mankato resident.

In 2007, Day-Lewis appeared in director Paul Thomas Anderson's loose adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel Oil !, titled There Will Be Blood.

Another Nobel Prize winning author, Sinclair Lewis, refers to the GAR in his acclaimed novel Main Street.

Upton Sinclair, most famous for his muck-raking novel The Jungle, advocated socialism.