Lewis Browne

A rabbi, Browne turned to writing popular histories and biographies including This Believing World (1926), The Graphic Bible (1928, illustrations by Mark Rothko), and The Wisdom of Israel (1945).

was regarded as a counterpart to It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, Browne's frequent debate partner on the 1940s lecture circuit.

In 1912 his family emigrated to the United States via the Canadian Pacific Railway from Banff and settled in Portland, Oregon.

[3] Its success made Browne one of the foremost humanists of the day, and an interesting speaker known for his philosophical turn of mind and warm sense of humor.

[4] Browne left the rabbinate in April 1926 to concentrate on writing,[2]: 2–3  and spent much of the year in Russia, studying the effect of Soviet rule on the practice of religion.

[3] In the 1940s he toured nationwide with author Sinclair Lewis, debating such questions as "Has the Modern Woman Made Good?