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Upton Sinclair


Born
in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States
September 20, 1878

Died
November 25, 1968

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Jack London, Frank Norris, Percy Shelley, Kropotkin, Robert Blatchford ...more


Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle (1906). To gather information for the novel, Sinclair spent seven weeks undercover working in the meat packing plants of Chicago. These direct experiences exposed the horrific conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. The Jungle has remained continuously in print since its initial publication. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of Am ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 174,934 ratings · 10,515 reviews · 702 distinct works • Similar authors
The Jungle
3.78 avg rating — 154,214 ratings — published 1906 — 2205 editions
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Oil!
3.74 avg rating — 7,320 ratings — published 1926 — 146 editions
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World's End
4.15 avg rating — 1,433 ratings — published 1940 — 42 editions
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4.04 avg rating — 986 ratings — published 1917 — 197 editions
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Between Two Worlds
4.29 avg rating — 622 ratings — published 1941 — 27 editions
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The Moneychangers
3.79 avg rating — 551 ratings — published 1908 — 185 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, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding
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“I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”
― Upton Sinclair
tags: about-the-jungle, disappointment
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“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
― Upton Sinclair
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February 2022 New School Classic Read Poll

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938, 178 pages
 
  57 votes, 27.3%

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, 1946, 335 pages
 
  38 votes, 18.2%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1905, 335 pages
 
  35 votes, 16.7%

Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry, 1975, 410 pages
 
  29 votes, 13.9%

To the North by Elizabeth Bowen, 1932, 320 pages
 
  20 votes, 9.6%

 
  19 votes, 9.1%

 
  11 votes, 5.3%

209 total votes
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