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"Sinclair Lewis"? Yep. If you actually read his books, they are entertaining caricatures...or really, grotesques. That's fine, but he was no more accurate than Woody Allen was when portraying Annie Hall's family.
Ah yes, the “narrow minded” “conformists” that made America a desirable place to live in the 20th century.
This is actually pretty good overview of Sinclair Lewis. That said, it would be better for everybody if the New York Times refrained from pretending it knows what Middle America was or is.
"Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885. His father was a prominent doctor in Sauk Centre, a town of about 2,800 — read all about it in “Main Street.” Fred, the oldest of the doctor’s three sons, became a miller and was never of much consequence within the ambitious Lewis clan. Claude, next oldest, was of considerable consequence: He became a distinguished surgeon, admired and sought after well beyond the city of St. Cloud, where he spent his adult life."

Guy is born into a well-off family, spends his youth doing odd jobs because he can afford to, goes to Yale, hangs out among the wealthy and elite becomes a writer. Basically upper class, who thinks he's not upper class, trying to show the middle class how foolish they are.

Fits the NYTimes perfectly.

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Something something apartheid, something something emerald mine, something something memelord. Think that about sums it up.

Did Sinclair Lewis?