Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore in 1878, the son of a liquor salesman, and grew up between the poverty of his parents and the comfort of his mother's family. From the age of fifteen he wrote stories by the dozen to pay for his studies at City College, then at Columbia. He would produce nearly a hundred books, among them an investigation of the American press and a cycle of eleven novels, the third of which received the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. A Socialist candidate for governor of California in 1926 and in 1930, he ran in 1934 under the Democratic label and was defeated. He died in New Jersey in 1968.

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• NovelThe JungleUpton Sinclair · 1906Literature