Mentor and Mimesis: How Sinclair Lewis Brought H.G. Wells to Main Street

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Environment and circumstance combined to bring H. G. Wells and Nobel laureate Sinclair Lewis to a notable psychological, intellectual, and literary affinity. It is Wells's social satire rather than his science fiction that Lewis emulated not once, but twice, to create his own novels at widely separated inflection points in his career. This essay identifies the many common elements in the two writers' life experiences and sensibilities, and describes significant aspects of their mentor-acolyte literary and personal relationship. It concludes with a discussion of remarkable mimetic facility as Lewis's principal literary gift and Wells's pre-eminent position as model among the many authorial influences present in Lewis's writing.