Kingsblood Royal
by Sinclair Lewis
A Tour de Force abandoned by the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Kingsblood Royal is a touching and brutally funny portrait of a man who retires from the white race. When Neil Kingsblood, a typical Central American banker with a comfortable life, makes a shocking discovery that he has African-American blood, the incoming odyssey creates an unforgettable image of two Americas, one black and one white. As it was when it was first published in 1947, all you have to do is open today's newspaper to see the same topics passionately debated among blacks and whites that we found in Kingsblood Royal, Charles Johnson says. Perhaps only now can we fully appreciate the incredible achievement of Sinclair Lewis.
