Arrowsmith
by Sinclair Lewis
Buy on AmazonArrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize. Lewis was greatly assisted in its preparation by science writer Paul de Kruif, who received 25% of the royalties on sales, although Lewis was listed as the sole author.
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"The perfect young man’s book: a vision of a pure life devoted to the search for scientific truth, above money grubbing and hypocrisy. How I longed to be like Arrowsmith, to find my mentor in a real Gottlieb. The feeling was intensified when I discovered Jack London’s Martin Eden shortly afterward."
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"I’m tempted to go with Martin Arrowsmith (the title character of Sinclair Lewis’s 1925 novel) — an early model of the modern medical researcher."
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