Main Street was written by which author?

• A. Sinclair Lewis
• B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• C. John Updike
• D. Thomas Wolfe

Answer: (A)

The central idea being tested is matching a classic novel to its author by looking at the themes and era it represents. Main Street, published in 1920, is a sharp social satire of small-town life and provincial norms in America. This kind of critique and realism is characteristic of Sinclair Lewis, who became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930 for his ongoing exploration of American society. Lewis’s broader body of work, including Babbitt and Arrowsmith, centers on exposing hypocrisies and pressures in everyday life. The other authors are known for different signature works—Fitzgerald for The Great Gatsby and Jazz Age themes, Updike for mid‑20th‑century domestic life in the Rabbit novels, Wolfe for expansive, autobiographical coming-of-age tales—so their most famous books don’t align with Main Street.