He stands out in the correspondence of the Souvenir and Art Novelty Company as "Our Mr. Wrenn," who would be writing you directly and explaining everything most satisfactorily. At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) became the first American novelist, in 1930, to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was a social critic who punctured American complacency with his broadly drawn, widely popular satirical novels. Our Mr. Wrenn was his first novel.