In 1930 this "Main Street" author became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature
In 1930, Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first 
writer from the United States to receive the award, after he had been nominated 
by... [DOC] [TLE] Nobel Prize for Literature 1930 - Nobelprize.org [PAR] He describes the place in his novel Main Street (1920), though there it is called ... 
To be sure, the town is first and foremost American, but it could, as a spiritual 
milieu, ... conversation and stimulating anecdotes; he is sociable and winning.