Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, activist, and politician whose novel The Jungle (1906) led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Born into an impoverished family in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair entered City College of New York five days before his fourteenth birthday. He wrote dime novels and articles for pulp magazines to pay for his tuition, and continued his writing career as a graduate student at Columbia University. To research The Jungle, he spent seven weeks working undercover in Chicago’s meatpacking plants. The book received great critical and commercial success, and Sinclair used the proceeds to start a utopian community in New Jersey. In 1915, he moved to California, where he founded the state’s ACLU chapter and became an influential political figure, running for governor as the Democratic nominee in 1934. Sinclair wrote close to one hundred books during his lifetime, including Oil! (1927), the inspiration for the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood; Boston (1928), a documentary novel revolving around the Sacco and Vanzetti case; The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism, and the eleven novels in Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd series.

Books By Upton Sinclair (23 Books)

The Moneychangers
The Jungle
The Coal War
King Coal
Boston
The Brass Check
The Profits of Religion
The Return of Lanny Budd

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World's End
Dragon's Teeth
Presidential Agent
Presidential Mission
Dragon Harvest
One Clear Call
O Shepherd, Speak!
Between Two Worlds
A World to Win
Wide Is the Gate
The Lanny Budd Novels Volume One
The Lanny Budd Novels Volume Two
Oil!
The Machine
Mental Radio

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