Influential novelist and playwright who wrote Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, Main Street, and other classics, and the first American recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. TLS signed “SL,” one page, 6.5 x 9.5, personal letterhead, March 13, 1944. A letter relating activities and upcoming plans to his friend, fellow author, and priest Father [Edward J.] Murphy. In part: “For three months now I’ve actually been set here, and doing nothing more dangerous than write a two-part story which the Cosmopolitan will publish some time this year. . . . I’ll be starting in a month, and I’ll be working on in Minnesota, my new novel, which will keep me busy all the rest of the year or longer. . . . [Marcella] and I spent all our spare time playing chess. . . . It is, at least, I should think, one of our safer games, and as most of the masters of it are Russian Jews, I don’t think it can even be put down as capitalistic and reactionary!” In very good condition, with trimmed edges, usual mailing folds, slight haloing to signature, and remnants from a previous mounting on reverse. R&R COA.
