Publisher, Blackstone Audio (December 2009)

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2009 Audie Award-Winner in the 'Literary Fiction' Category

“Elmer Gantry is charismatic without being likable, which makes voicing him a tricky business for Anthony Heald....Heald's pacing, his accents, his narrative drive are all excellent....” —AudioFile

Elmer Gantry is a greedy, shallow, and philandering Baptist minister who discovers that he has a gift for evangelist preaching. As the silver-tongued preacher rises to ever greater power within the church, eventually heading a large Methodist congregation, he continues to live a life of hypocrisy and self-indulgence. Although often exposed as a fraud, Gantry is never fully discredited. A landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry is also a penetrating study of religious hypocrisy and the culture of evangelism is it existed in America in the 1920s.

About the Author: HARRY SINCLAIR LEWIS (1885-1951), the son of a country doctor, was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. He attended Yale University, where he was editor of the literary magazine, and graduated in 1907. After a few of his stories had appeared in magazines and his first novel, Our Mr. Wrenn (1914), had been published, he was able to write full time. He was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Arrowsmith (1925) but refused to accept this honor. However, in 1930 he accepted the Nobel Prize for literature, the first American to win that honor.