Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
Banned in Boston 1927; Nobel Prize to Lewis in 1930.
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis ranked as the number one fiction bestseller of 1927. It was banned in Boston, Kansas City, Mo., and Camden, N.J. 1
Sinclair Lewis was the first person from the United States to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.2
Burt Lancaster won the Best Actor Award for the 1960 film based on the novel.
1
Rob Boston. (2014). “The Censorship Crusade.” Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. (September 22).
2
Sinclair Lewis. Nobel Prize website.
Why was it banned?