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,...

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...

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...

American novelist Upton Sinclair is most famous for his 1906 novel The Jungle and the reforms to which it gave rise. Sinclair was a muckraker—so dubbed by President Theodore Roosevelt, who regarded them as a nuisance—one of a group of...

Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was a prolific American author and muckraker who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators, advocating socialist views and...

The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday named "There Will Be Blood," a gritty tale about a turn-of-the-century oil man infected with greed, the best picture of 2007.The film topped Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" and Joel and Ethan Coen's harrowing...

The National Society of Film Critics has named "There Will Be Blood," a gritty tale about a turn-of-the-century oil man infected with greed, the best picture of 2007.The film topped Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" and Joel and Ethan Coen's harrowing saga,...

While the Writers Guild of America continues its strike, throwing much of awards season into question, it still has some awards of its own to hand out.Among the WGA nominees for best original screenplay are stripper-turned-scribe Diablo Cody for the teen pregnancy comedy "Juno" and...

Steven Kessner, a real estate magnate named by The Village Voice in June 2006 as one of “NYC’s 10 Worst Landlords,” has bought his son Robert a $1.395 million apartment at 300 East 85th Street, a tower called the America. That’s a few eons...

[If] literature is an attempt to place ideology before readers in an understandable way, an obvious spokesman becomes a convenient tool rather than a literary liability. In this way Sinclair hoped to produce "propaganda of vitality and importance"—propaganda defined by Sinclair as the spreading of democratic socialism. (pp. 12-13) Far from a foreign ideology, Sinclair's concept of American socialism retained every significant aspect of an idealism often referred to as the America...

It is natural that Mr. Sinclair should be popular with the dispossessed: they who are so seldom flattered find in his pages a land of milk and honey. Here all the workers wear haloes of pure golden sunlight and all the capitalists have horns and tails; socialists with fashionable English wives invariably turn yellow at the appropriate moment, and rich men's sons are humbled in the dust, winsome lasses are always true unless their fathers have money in the bank, and wives never understand their husban...

Both in life and in writings Sinclair has attempted, as did Dickens, to be the persuading intermediary between the contending classes. With admirable sweetness of temper, considering his lack of success, he has continued to argue that the owning class should perform a revolution by consent, that the capitalist should give up his profits and power in exchange for citizenship in an industrial democracy. But in the novels that he has so prodigally brought forth year after year since the publication of The Jung...

Biography on the life and works of Upton Sinclair.

Upton Sinclair influenced society in many ways. His work reflects socialistic views and he achieved worldwide recognition extremely easily. He influenced society through the publication of The Jungle, which led to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. He also responded to other people's criticism of his works through letters and articles and wrote numerous influential novels about things that were happening during the time period he lived.

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