This Day in the Arts: November 5
1930:
Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, for Arrowsmith.
1943:
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard is born in Fort Sheridan, Illinois.
Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, for Arrowsmith.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard is born in Fort Sheridan, Illinois.