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Upton Sinclair

Born

in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States

September 20, 1878

Died

November 25, 1968

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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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: 3.78 · 165,694 ratings · 9,399 reviews · 727 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Jungle 3.77 avg rating — 147,011 ratings — published 1906 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oil! 3.73 avg rating — 6,685 ratings — published 1926 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World's End 4.15 avg rating — 1,267 ratings — published 1940 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragon's Teeth (World's End Lanny Budd, #3) 4.05 avg rating — 968 ratings — published 1942 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King Coal by Upton Sinclair, Georg Brandes (Introduction) 4.03 avg rating — 860 ratings — published 1917 — 159 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Two Worlds 4.31 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 1941 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America by Upton Sinclair, Steve Meyer (introduction) 3.73 avg rating — 523 ratings — published 1937 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moneychangers 3.80 avg rating — 508 ratings — published 1908 — 168 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragon's Teeth I 3.70 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 1942 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wide Is the Gate (The Lanny Budd Novels #4) 4.33 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 1943 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Upton Sinclair (?)

“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

tags: capitalism, fascism, upton-sinclair

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Polls

September 2017 New School Classic Poll

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 1969, 246 pgs

44 votes, 14.1%

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, 1992, 559 pgs

34 votes, 10.9%

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 1985, 324 pgs

30 votes, 9.6%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 1969, 448 pgs

28 votes, 8.9%

Dubliners by James Joyce, 1914, 207 pgs

26 votes, 8.3%

Sophie's Choice by William Styron, 1979, 562 pgs

19 votes, 6.1%

Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 1994, 437 pgs

18 votes, 5.8%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906, 335 pgs

16 votes, 5.1%

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 1940, 368 pgs

15 votes, 4.8%

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, 1927, 256 pgs

15 votes, 4.8%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pgs

14 votes, 4.5%

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 1901, 731 pgs

11 votes, 3.5%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 1913, 468 pgs

11 votes, 3.5%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 225 pgs

11 votes, 3.5%

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, 1934, 308 pgs

10 votes, 3.2%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 1923, 127 pgs

10 votes, 3.2%

The Street by Ann Petry, 1946, 435 pgs

1 vote, 0.3%

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1953, 180 pgs

0 votes, 0.0%

313 total votes

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