The first Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to an American writer went to this author.
Sinclair Lewis
Pearl S. Buck
Eugene O’Neill
William Faulkner
Sinclair Lewis in 1930 for his novels in total. These novels included Main Street and Elmer Gantry. His novels are satirical in nature. He refused the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 for Arrowsmith but accepted the Nobel Prize.