Babbitt

Fiction

• Babbitt (novel) is a 1922 novel by Sinclair Lewis.

*It is also the title of the two films based on the novel, Babbitt (1924 film) and Babbitt (1934 film)

• Babbit is the family name of the title character of Runny Babbit, a book by Shel Silverstein.

People

• Art Babbitt (1907-1992), an American animator
• Bruce Babbitt (born 1938), a United States Secretary of the Interior during the Clinton administration
• Dina Babbitt (born 1923), an American painter
• Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), an American academic and literary critic.
• Milton Babbitt (born 1916), an American composer of serial and electronic music
• Natalie Babbitt (born 1932), an American author and illustrator of children's books, notably Tuck Everlasting, The Eyes of the Amaryllis, and Knee-Knock Rise.

Places

• Babbitt, Minnesota, in the United States
• Babbitt, a section of the township of North Bergen, New Jersey, United States, formerly the site of a large railroad yard

Other

• Babbitt metal, any of a number of white metal alloys used for bearings
• "Babbit" is the half-bat, half-rabbit narrator that often transcends the fourth wall in the anime Kodocha