Chapter 21 Names

Most famous trial lawyer of the time, hired by ACLU to defend John Scopes.

New York Yankee Baseball player. Hit 60 home-runs for the yankees in 1927.

Became first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926.

Made first nonstop solo flight across atlantic He was from Minnesota. Took off in NYC to Paris.

Created Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F. Combined Jazz w/ traditional style.

First American to win a Nobel Prize in literature. Author of Main Street and Babbitt.

Novelist, author of In This Side Of Paradise and The Great Gatsby.

Poet who wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence from traditional constraints.

Author of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. Wounded in WW1, was against war gratification.

NAACP executive secretary. Also a Lawyer/Poet.

Jamaican immigrant who helped establish the Harlem R. and also created some poems of his own.

Best known poet of the Harlem R. Was from Missouri.

Most accomplished African American woman writer of the time. Portrayed the lives of poor, unschooled blacks.

Son of a runaway slave, was a major dramatic actor. Went to Rutgers and eventually Columbia Law.

A trumpet player and popular African American jazz artist. Was considered to be one of the best in the genre.

A jazz pianist and composer. Self-taught and also considered to be at the top.

A female blues singer. Was the highest paid black artist in 1927.

Sinclair Lewis:

First writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Born February 7, 1885, in the village of Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
Began reading books at a young age and kept a diary.

He had two siblings.

His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and a stern disciplinarian who had difficulty relating to his sensitive, unathletic third son.

Lewis's mother, died in 1891.

The following year, Edwin Lewis married Isabel Warner, whose company young Lewis apparently enjoyed.

Throughout his lonely boyhood, the ungainly Lewis—tall, extremely thin, stricken with acne and somewhat pop-eyed—had trouble gaining friends and pined after various local girls.

At the age of 13 he unsuccessfully ran away from home, wanting to become a drummer boy in the Spanish-American War.
Traveled to Panama and other countries for inspiration.

Attended Yale for writing.

Sinclair found himself making ends meet by selling novel plots to famous authors such as Jack London. Although not many of them were ever used. Married to a Vogue Editor. Had a son who then named Wells Lewis after H.G. Wells. Son was killed in action during WW2. He divorced, remarried, had a son, and divorced again. His son Michael was an alcoholic and and an actor.

Won his prize for Babbitt. Praised Ernest Hemingway among many others. Criticized the American Lit. Education system. Had an Alcoholic Binge in the late 30's and was admitted to a Psychiatric hospital for a bit. Died in Rome at 65 via Advanced Alcoholicism.