Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry

First edition cover
Author	Sinclair Lewis
Language	English
Publisher	Harcourt Trade Publishers
Publication date	March 1927
Publication place	United States
Pages	432
OCLC	185039547

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Elmer Gantry is a 1927 satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis that presents aspects of the religious activity of the United States in fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it.^{[not verified in body]} Reverend Dr. Elmer Gantry, the protagonist, is attracted by drinking, chasing women, and making easy money (although eventually renouncing tobacco and alcohol). In the novel's fictional world, after various forays into smaller fringe churches, Gantry becomes a major moral and political force in the Methodist Church despite his hypocrisy and serial sexual indiscretions.^{[1][non-primary source needed]}

Elmer Gantry was published in the United States by Harcourt Trade Publishers in March 1927, dedicated by Lewis to the American journalist and satirist H. L. Mencken.^{[not verified in body]}