Was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.
Pictured on a 14¢ US definitive postage stamp in the Great Americans
series, issued 21 March 1985.
Father (with journalist Dorothy Thompson) of Michael Lewis.
Had a son, Wells Lewis (born 1917) with his first wife, Grace Livingston Hegger. He was named after English author, H.G. Wells. Wells was killed in 1944 in World War II combat in France.
Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series,
Vol. 132, pp. 256-264. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
