Author: Sinclair Lewis, "Arrowsmith": In the novel Arrowsmith by the American writer, Nobel Prize winner, master and expert in psychology of the "average American" Lewis Sinclair, Martin Arrowsmith, a young idealistic doctor, dreams of devoting himself to work for the benefit of people after graduating from medical school. The novel tells about medicine and the people in it — rudely honest, despising money and titles, "believing in laboratory analysis more than in dogmas and slogans" and discovering new remedies and vaccines in the fight against epidemics. Along with the novel "Babbitt," the story and fate of the young doctor-scientist Arrowsmith is recognized as Lewis Sinclair's best work as an example of a psychological novel on the theme "man and his work."