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November 25, 1968 (90 years old)
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Virgo
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Upton Beall Sinclair Jr is an American political activist, writer, and candidate for governor of California in 1934, who has written nearly 100 books and other works in a variety of genres. Sinclair's work was well known and loved in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for his work of fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair was particularly famous for his classic novel The Jungle, Speaking of the Conditions of work and hygiene. in the meat packaging industry in the United States, causing a public outcry that helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and the Meat Inspection Act a few months later. In 1919 he published The Brass Check, a horrific exhibition of the American press which publicized the problem of the yellow press and the limits of the "free press" in the United States. Four years after the publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created.
BornUpton Beall Sinclair Jr, September 20, 1878, Baltimore, Maryland, US
DiedNovember 25, 1968, Bound Brook, New Jersey, US
Alma materCity College of New York, Columbia University
OccupationNovelist, writer, journalist, political activist, politician
Notable workThe Jungle
Political partySocialist (1902–1934), Democratic (1934–1968)

About Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair

Novelist Upton Sinclair was born on September 20, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States (He dies at the age of 90, on November 25, 1968).

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Jungle, a muckraking work that exposed the unsanitary conditions and torturous treatment of workers in the meat-packing industry. The Lanny Budd and Sylvia books are among his other works.

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Upton Sinclair before becoming famous

Upton Sinclair was born in the Zodiac sign Virgo (The Maiden), and 1878 is also the year of Tiger (兎) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He enrolled in City College of New York just before his fifteenth birthday and paid his tuition by writing magazine articles. He went on to Columbia University to study law before working covertly in the Chicago meatpacking sector.

Achievement of Upton Sinclair

Oil!, a drama he wrote in 1927, was transformed into a screenplay for There Will Be Blood. Movie Actor Paul Dano and Movie Actor Daniel Day-Lewis starred in the film.

Upton Sinclair's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

With his first wife, Meta Fuller, he had a son named David. He married Mary Craig Kimbrough (almost forty years) and Mary Elizabeth Willis two more times (for less than a decade).

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Upton Sinclair Collabed with

He once collaborated with Movie Actor Charlie Chaplin, the silent cinema star.

Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977) (Movie Actor)
Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)

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Upton Sinclair Income & Net worth

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