“The factories were idle and the workers had no money. Let them be put to work on the state”
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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culture · American writer (1878–1968) · journalist · novelist · film producer · writer · opinion journalist · dietitian · politician · poet · playwright · also Upton Sinclair, Upton Beall Sinclair, Clarke Fitch, Frederick Garrison, Arthur Stirling, Upton Sinclair Jr.
Born 20 September 1878 · Died 25 November 1968 · Q216134
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2026· 6 entries
“and is the reason why I am a Prohibitionist.”
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“s 16th year, he decided not to have anything to do with his mother, staying away from her for 35 years because an argument would start if they met. Upton became close with Reverend William Wilmerding Moir. Moir specialized in sexual abstinence, and taught his beliefs to Sinclair. He was taught to”
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Morningstar: Liberty Hill Foundation Celebrates 50 Years of Solidarity & Progress at 2026 Upton Sinclair Dinner
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The New York Times: Upton Sinclair
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Morningstar: 2026 Upton Sinclair Lecture: Environmental Contamination Plagues Elementary School Near Former Dump
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2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Upton Sinclair : California socialist, celebrity intellectual / Lauren Coodley
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2024· 1 entry
Los Angeles Times: Upton Sinclair dreamed of a socialist California. He’s smiling upon the L.A. City Council
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2023· 1 entry
Business Wire: 2023 Upton Sinclair Memorial Lecture to Examine Lingering Effects of Rubber Industry
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1968· 3 entries
Died 1968-11-25.
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They moved to Buckeye, Arizona, before returning east to Bound Brook, New Jersey, where Sinclair died in a nursing home on November 25, 1968, a year after Mary.
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“I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.”
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1962· 1 entry
“[Mary] Craig had written some tales of her Southern girlhood; and I had stolen them from her for a novel to be called Sylvia.”
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1943· 1 entry
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for Dragon's Teeth (1943).
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1935· 1 entry
Published I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked, in which he described the techniques employed by Merriam's supporters, including the then popular Aimee Semple McPherson, who vehemently opposed socialism and
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1934· 2 entries
As a preface to running for office in the state of California
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Sinclair ran in the California gubernatorial election as a Democrat
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1926· 1 entry
Winning nearly 46,000 votes, and in 1930, winning nearly 50,000 votes
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1923· 1 entry
To support the challenged free speech rights of Industrial Workers of the World, Sinclair spoke at a rally during the San Pedro Maritime Strike, in a neighborhood now known as Liberty Hill
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1920· 1 entry
For the House of Representatives and in 1922 for the Senate
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1919· 1 entry
Published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of journalistic malpractice in the United States
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1917· 1 entry
And supported the war effort during World War I
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1914· 2 entries
Sinclair helped organize demonstrations in New York City against Rockefeller at the Standard Oil offices
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Moved to Croton-on-Hudson, New York, joining the local community of prominent socialists
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1913· 2 entries
Sinclair married Mary Craig Kimbrough (1882–1961), a woman from an elite Greenwood, Mississippi, family and author of articles on Winnie Davis, the daughter of Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis
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The New York Times called it "the best novel Mr
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1911· 2 entries
Sinclair invited Harry Kemp, the "Vagabond Poet", to camp on the couple's land in Arden
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Sinclair was arrested for playing tennis on the Sabbath and spent eighteen hours in the New Castle County prison in lieu of paying a fine
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1910· 1 entry
The Sinclairs moved to the single-tax village of Arden, Delaware, where they built a house
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1906· 2 entries
Sinclair acquired particular fame for his novel, The Jungle, which "exposed the labor and sanitary conditions in the U
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When he ran for Congress in New Jersey's 4th congressional district, polling 3% of the vote
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1904· 1 entry
Sinclair spent seven weeks in disguise, working undercover in Chicago's meatpacking plants to research his novel The Jungle (1906), a political exposé that addressed conditions in the plants, as well as the lives of poor
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1888· 1 entry
The Sinclair family moved to Queens, New York City, where his father sold shoes
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1878· 1 entry
Born 1878-09-20.
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