Sinclair Lewis (American, 1885 - 1951) was a novelist who regularly visited Paris in the 1920s and socialized with other American expats, including Ernest Hemingway and Edna St. Vincent Millay. He received early commercial success with works such as Main Street (1920) and Babbitt (1922) but his novel Arrowsmith (1925), a condemnation of medical research and training in the United States, would be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1926. Lewis declined the honor, but four years later, became the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Man Ray photographed Lewis on several occasions, mostly creating publicity portraits to publicize his novels.