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Biography of Upton Beale Sinclair, Jr.
Name: Upton Beale Sinclair, Jr.
Birth Date: September 20, 1878
Death Date: November 25, 1968
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer
Upton Beale Sinclair, Jr.
Upton Beale Sinclair, Jr. (1878-1968), American novelist and political writer, was one of the most influential muckraking writers of the 1900s. He continued to write and speak for reform for many years.Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 20, 1878. His father, struggling against poverty and liquor, moved the family to New York City when Upton was 10. At 14 Upton entered the College of the City of New York. He graduated in 1897 and went to Columbia University to study law. Through these years he supported himself by writing for adventure-story magazines.Sinclair moved to Quebec in 1900. His first novel, Springtime and Harvest (1901), was a modest success. Three more novels in the next 4 years failed to provide even a bare living. In 1906, however, The Jungle, exposing unfair labor practices and unsanitary conditions in the packing houses of Chicago, scored a huge success. The novel's protest about the lot of laborers and the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…him the Democratic nomination, but millions of dollars and a campaign based on falsehood and fear defeated him in the election.World's End (1940) launched Sinclair's 11-volume novel series attempting to give an insider's view of American government between 1913 and 1949. One of the novels, Dragon's Teeth (1942), a study of the rise of Nazism, won the Pulitzer Prize. Before his death on Nov. 25, 1968, Sinclair had produced more than 90 books which netted at least million, most of it contributed to socialist and reform causes. Associated Works The Jungle (Novel) Further Reading Sinclair's My Lifetime in Letters (1960) and The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair (1962) are revealing, if not entirely reliable. Sinclair's work is discussed appreciatively in Alfred Kazin, On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature (1942). A brief essay and a rare reprint of the "End Poverty in California" program are in Arthur M. Weinberg, Passport to Utopia: Great Panaceas in American History (1968).
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