Picture of Sinclair Lewis at the wheel, published in The World's Work (1921) in a piece celebrating the bestseller success of Main Street.
Featured on PDR in the essay American Freedom: Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road
Some three decades before Kerouac and friends hit the road, Sinclair Lewis published Free Air, one of the very first novels about an automobile-powered road trip across the United States. Steven Michels looks at the particular vision of freedom espoused in the tale, one echoed throughout Lewis' oeuvre.
Also appearing in the essay…
Sinclair Lewis at the Wheel
Date
1921
From
The World's Work
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