The complete online text of The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow by Upton Sinclair.

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...

Upton Sinclair was a writer whose main concerns were politics and economics. His ideas about literature—his own, written over more than six decades, and that of others—were inseparable from his dreams of social justice. Consequently, the grea...

Upton Sinclair was a writer whose main concerns were politics and economics. His ideas about literature--his own, written over more than six decades, and that of others--were inseparable from his dreams of social justice. Consequently, the great majority...

It was Lord Byron who attracted the celebrated denunciation "mad, bad and dangerous to know". But from the way people in our neck of the woods are talking, you would think that Lady Caroline Lamb's stinging epithets now apply exclusively to the planning committee...

Among the patriotic lesson plans for 9/11 was one proposed by the National Council for Social Studies, which recommends a short story titled "My Name Is Osama." Calculatedly inciting hatred toward white American boys, the story is about a nasty little boy, "Todd," who...