Biel links the Easterners to the '' revolt against the provinces '' in the literature of the 1910-20 era -- Sherwood Anderson 's '' Winesburg , Ohio '' ( 1919 ) , Sinclair Lewis 's '' Main Street '' ( 1920 ) and Carl Van Vechten 's '' Tattooed Countess '' ( 1924 ) , which is set in fictional '' Maple Valley , Iowa . ''