The Trail of the Hawk (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Sinclair Lewis

Small-town Minnesota boy Carl “Hawk” Erickson is kicked out of school for defending a socialism-preaching teacher. Traveling around America in the 1910s, he falls in love—with the excitement of airplanes. After a career as a famous pilot, he faces the ultimate challenge: Can he settle down and get married?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Mar 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411443051

Sinclair Lewis

Nobel Prize-winning writer Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) is best known for novels like Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith (for which he was awarded but declined the Pulitzer Prize), and Elmer Gantry. A writer from his youth, Lewis wrote for and edited the Yale Literary Magazine while a student, and started his literary career writing popular stories for magazines and selling plots to other writers like Jack London. Lewis’s talent for description and creating unique characters won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930, making him the first American writer to win the prestigious award. Considered to be one of the “greats” of American literature, Lewis was honoured with a Great Americans series postage stamp, and his work has been adapted for both stage and screen.