Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
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 ...
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Biography EssayUpton 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 ...
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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 year...
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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 drea...
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Critical Essay by Walter B. Rideout
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 t...
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Critical Essay by John Deedy
Sinclair's [Boston] is a fascinating, if flawed work—baldly partisan pieces frequently are—a cut below The Jungle and others of his books. (p. 475)
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Critical Essay by Van Wyck Brooks
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 wor...
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Critical Essay by Malcolm Cowley
I respect [Upton Sinclair] because he says exactly what he thinks, even if it often sounds foolish to others and will eventually sound foolish to himself; he is willin...
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Critical Essay by Jon A. Yoder
[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....
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Upton Sinclair, the famous American author, wanted to be a great influence on society. He was born in 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, from a family of Southern aristocracy. His father was an alcoholic ...
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Never Yet Defeated: The Life and Works of Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was born in a boardinghouse in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20, 1878, to Upton Beall and Priscilla Harden Sincla...
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Upton Sinclair, a well-educated politician, had a very mainstream life, as well as a generally unsuccessful writing career. Writing was an infatuation of his; through his writing, Sinclair (although...
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Upton Sinclair, in 1904, was sent to investigate the meat packing industry in the city of Chicago. After seeing what he did, he decided to let the public know what capitalism did to the common...
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Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
Upton Beale Sinclair, Jr.
Upton (Beall) Sinclair
