Upton Sinclair
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[edit] General Information
Name: Upton SinclairPen Name: Upton Beall Sinclair, Clarke Fitch, Frederick Garrison, Arthur Stirling, Beall Sinclair, Jr., Upton (Beall) Sinclair, Upton Beale Sinclair, Jr.
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Born: September 20, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland
Died: November 25, 1968 and is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC
[edit] Illinois Connection
Upton Sinclair lived in Chicago when he went there with the intent of writing his novel; The Jungle.
[edit] Biographical and Professional Information
Upton Sinclair was a noted American "muckraker", social activist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize winning author. He was a prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators advocating socialist views.
He achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the 20th century. A seven-week visit to Chicago in 1904 lead him to write The Jungle, which described unsanitary conditions and the desperate plight of the immigrant works in Chicago's meat-packing industry and caused a public uproar that partly contributed to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. The book made Sinclair a national figure. He also received the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1942 for Dragon's Teeth.
The Upton Sinclair House in Monrovia, California, is now a National Historic Landmark. The papers, photographs, and first editions of most of his books are found at the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
[edit] Published Works
- King Midas, 1901
- The Journal of Arthur Stirling, 1903
- Manassas, 1904
- A Captain of Industry, 1906
- The Jungle, 1906
- The Metropolis, 1908
- The Money Changers, 1908
- Samuel the Seeker, 1909
- Love's Pilgrimage, 1911
- Sylvia's Marriage, 1914
- King Coal, 1917
- The Profits of Religion, 1918
- Jimmie Higgins, 1919
- 100%: The Story of a Patriot, 1920
- They Call Me Carpenter, 1922
- Oil!, 1927
- Boston, 1928
- Roman Holiday, 1931
- American Outpost, 1932
- The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America, 1937
- What Can Be Done About America`s Economic Troubles, (privately printed), Privately Printed, 1939
- Telling the World, Laurie, 1940
- Between Two Worlds, 1941
- Dragon's Teeth, 1942
- The Return of Lanny Budd, 1953
- The Cup of Fury, 1956
- (Lanny Budd Series) World`s End, Viking 1940, reprinted, Curtis Books, 1968
- (Lanny Budd Series) Between Two Worlds, Viking 1941, reprinted, Curtis Books, 1968
- (Lanny Budd Series) Dragon`s Teeth, Viking, 1942, reprinted, New American Library, 1968
- Another Pamela, or, Virtue Still Rewarded, Viking, 1950
- The Cup of Fury, Channel Press, 1956
- What Didymus Did, Wingate, 1954, published as, It Happened to Didymus, Sagamore Press, 1958
- Cicero, A Tragedy of Ancient Rome, Privately printed, 1960
- Affectionately Eve, Twayne, 1961
- The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair, 1962
[edit] Titles for Purchase and at Your Library
 | King MidasISBN: 1603121463 Release Date: 2007-03-01 |
 | The Jungle: The Uncensored Original EditionISBN: 1884365302 Release Date: 2003-04-01 |
 | The Money ChangersISBN: 0486469174 Release Date: 2009-01-15 |
 | King CoalISBN: 0981651518 Release Date: 2008-07-29 |
 | Oil!ISBN: 0143112260 Release Date: 2007-12-18 |
Affectionately Eve 1ST EditionISBN: B00164L26U Release Date: 1961-01-01 |
[edit] Literary Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Dragon`s Teeth in 1943.
In 1990, his name was engraved on the frieze of the Illinois State Library alongside other great Illinois literary figures.
[edit] External Links
Upton Sinclair on C-SPAN American Writers
[edit] Editing
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