Upton Sinclair
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born
September 20, 1878
died
November 25, 1968
gender
male
place of birth
The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction
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Upton Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), 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 and supporting anarchist causes, he achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the 20th century. He gained particular fame for his novel, The Jungle (1906), which dealt with conditions in the U.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.
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The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition by Upton Sinclair, Earl Lee (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.74 — 8,763 ratings — published 1905 131 editions |
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Oil! by Upton Sinclair avg rating 3.58 — 729 ratings — published 1927 14 editions |
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The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America by Upton Sinclair avg rating 3.71 — 38 ratings — published 1937 7 editions |
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The Millennium by Upton Sinclair avg rating 3.29 — 38 ratings — published 1924 3 editions |
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King Coal by Upton Sinclair avg rating 3.52 — 25 ratings — published 2007 7 editions |
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Boston: A Documentary Novel of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case by Upton Sinclair avg rating 4.20 — 15 ratings — published 1974 4 editions |
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The Moneychangers by Upton Sinclair avg rating 3.32 — 19 ratings — published 1919 14 editions |
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World's End by Upton Sinclair avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published 2007 6 editions |
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Dragon's Teeth I by Upton Sinclair avg rating 3.54 — 13 ratings — published 1942 7 editions |
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I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked by Upton Sinclair avg rating 3.58 — 12 ratings — published 1994 2 editions |
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
— Upton Sinclair
— Upton Sinclair
"Worst of any, however, were the fertilizer men, and those who served in the cooking rooms. These people could not be shown to the visitor,--for the odor of a fertilizer man would scare any ordinary visitor at a hundred yards, and as for the other men, who worked in tank rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,--sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard!"
— Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
— Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
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