&ldquo;Arrowsmith&rdquo; is a book by Sinclair Lewis an American writer. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.<br />&ldquo;Arrowsmith&rdquo; is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined).<br />Arrowsmith tells the story of bright and scientifically minded Martin Arrowsmith of Elk Mills, Winnemac (the same fictional state in which several of Lewis&#39;s other novels are set), as he makes his way from a small town in the Midwest to the upper echelons of the scientific community at a prestigious foundation in New York City.<br />&nbsp;