Editing Sinclair Lewis (section)

==Legacy==
Compared to his contemporaries, Lewis's reputation suffered a precipitous decline among literary scholars throughout the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/02/sheer-data/302419/|title=Sheer Data|first=Benjamin|last=Schwarz|date=February 1, 2002|website=The Atlantic|access-date=July 31, 2020}}</ref> Despite his enormous popularity during the 1920s, by the 21st century most of his works had been eclipsed in prominence by other writers with less commercial success during the same time period, such as [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] and [[Ernest Hemingway]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-31-bk-taylor31-story.html|title=Our Damaged Nobel Laureate|date=March 31, 2002|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 31, 2020}}</ref>

Since the 2010s there has been renewed interest in Lewis's work, in particular his 1935 dystopian satire ''[[It Can't Happen Here]]''. In the aftermath of the [[2016 United States presidential election]], ''It Can't Happen Here'' surged to the top of [[Amazon.com|Amazon]]'s list of best-selling books.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/28/media/it-cant-happen-here-1984-best-sellers/index.html|title=Amazon's best-seller list takes a dystopian turn in Trump era|first=Brian|last=Stelter|date=January 28, 2017|website=CNNMoney|access-date=July 31, 2020}}</ref> Scholars have found parallels in his novels to the [[COVID-19 pandemic|COVID-19 crisis]],<ref>David J. Eisenman, "Rereading Arrowsmith in the COVID-19 Pandemic". ''JAMA'' 324.4 (2020): 319–320. [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2767891 online]</ref> and to the rise of [[Donald Trump]].<ref>Ellen Strenski, "It Can't Happen Here, or Has It? Sinclair Lewis's Fascist America". ''Terrorism and Political Violence'' 29.3 (2017): 425–436, compare with Donald Trump. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2017.1304760</ref>

He has been honored by the [[United States Postal Service|U.S. Postal Service]] with a [[postage stamp]] in the [[Great Americans series]]. In 1960 Polish American sculptor [[Joseph Kiselewski]] was commissioned to create a bust of Lewis, now in the [[Great River Regional Library|Great River Regional]] public library in Sauk Centre, MN.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sculpture |url=https://www.kiselewskisculpture.com/ |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=Joseph Kiselewski |language=en}}</ref>