With the publication of Main Street and Babbitt, Lewis became a successful novelist and critic of American culture, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. He returned frequently to Minnesota; never able to deny his underlying attachment to the Northern Middle West, he described it as "...the newest empire of the world... a land of dairy herds and exquisite lakes, of new automobiles and tarpaper shanties and silos like red towers, of clumsy speech and a hope that is boundless." Lewis talent declined and he died alone in Italy on January 10, 1951. As he had requested, his ashes were brought home to Sauk Centre.
| HM Number | HMTFE |
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| Series | This marker is part of the National Historic Landmarks series |
| Tags | |
| Year Placed | 1988 |
| Placed By | Minnesota Historical Society |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Monday, October 20th, 2014 at 4:20am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 15T E 347716 N 5066706 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 45.73715000, -94.95743333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 45° 44.229', W 94° 57.446' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 45° 44' 13.74" N, 94° 57' 26.76" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 320 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 800-898 Co Hwy 17, Sauk Centre MN 56378, US |
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