IF Sinclair Lewis is trying to prove that these United States are encased in a hard shell of religious dogma, he need ask for no more exquisite proof than the indignation which has greeted Elmer ...

PERHAPS all the fuss about purity is nothing but a subtle publicity device to draw attention to this learned and scholarly tome, “Anthony Comstock, Roundsman of the Lord,” upon which the leisure of ...

Elmer Gantry, the traveling evangelist who loved whiskey, women and wealth, was conceived by Sinclair Lewis in a best-selling 1927 novel and... Elmer Gantry, the traveling evangelist who loved whiskey ...

You probably didn't notice it, but that old rogue Elmer Gantry turned 80 this year. A surprising thought, perhaps, given what a fixture Sinclair Lewis's 1927 fictional portrait of a bogus and amoral ...

Sinclair Lewis’s 1927 novel, Elmer Gantry, is considered one of the masterpieces of early 20th Century American literature. It tells the story of an old-time preacher who tries to cover his ...

Signature Theatre in Arlington is staging the musical, “Elmer Gantry,” through Nov. 9. The play centers on charismatic, but completely broke salesman Elmer Gantry, who stumbles upon a struggling ...

3 Stephen Schwartz Pulls Out of WNO Gala at the Kennedy Center Schaeffer wanted to bring ELMER GANTRY back to the DC area where it premiered at the Ford's Theatre and played there again later. The ...

In our "Books Change" series, historians of religion consider books that have changed us or have themselves been changed. In my copy of Elmer Gantry, one sentence is underlined six times: “He had, in ...

In my copy of Elmer Gantry, one sentence is underlined six times: “He had, in fact, got everything from church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and ...