The city of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, population 3581, is located along the Sauk River, south of Sauk Lake, in Stearns County. Sauk Centre is 105 miles northwest of Minneapolis-St. Paul, and about 40 miles northwest of St. Cloud, at the junction of Interstate 94 and U.S. Highway 71. Sauk Centre's most famous son is Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His book Main Street draws on Sauk Centre. At the time of publication there were some hard feelings, but now all is forgiven.