Sauk Centre, Minnesota

Sauk Centre is a city located in Stearns County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 3,930. It is the birthplace of Sinclair Lewis, a novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and Sauk Centre served as the inspiration for Gopher Prairie, the ficitonal setting of Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street.

Related Topics:
Stearns County, Minnesota - 2000 - Sinclair Lewis - Nobel Prize in Literature - Gopher Prairie - Main Street

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