File:Upton_Sinclair_LCCN2014686178_Crop.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Upton Sinclair
Sign in to saveAlso known as Upton Beall Sinclair, Clarke Fitch, Frederick Garrison, Arthur Stirling, Upton Sinclair Jr.
American writer (1878–1968)
OverviewAI-generated
Upton Sinclair was an author whose work period began in 1898. He was recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection. His pseudonyms included Clarke Fitch, Arthur Stirling, and Frederick Garrison. He was born on 20 September 1878 and died on 25 November 1968.
His notable works include Letters to Judd, A captain of industry, and Save Carl v. Ossietzky! He is also associated with the Hebrew titles הג׳ונגל and Di goldene ḳeyṭ. Sinclair is referenced by 1,283 other encyclopedia articles. He has a presence in the Pulitzer Prize collection and is listed in various library and quote databases.
Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 20 September 1878
- Died
- 25 November 1968
- Works
- 361
Top works
- הג׳ונגל
- Di goldene ḳeyṭ
- Letters to Judd
- A captain of industry
- Save Carl v. Ossietzky!
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Character
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1981
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 312
- Total plays
- 6,498
Upton Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres. He achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the 20th century, gaining particular fame for his 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle. The book dealt with conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that partly contributed to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in 1906 <a href=
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Surface plasmon resonance sensors: review
· 1999 · cited 4,748x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,521x
- Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth
· 2011 · cited 3,521x
- Resveratrol improves health and survival of mice on a high-calorie diet
· 2006 · cited 3,378x
- Therapeutic potential of resveratrol: the in vivo evidence
· 2006 · cited 3,313x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”
- “What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of "art for art's sake" than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore — and then there will be time enough for art.”
- “Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!”
- “I know you are brave and unselfish people, making sacrifices for a great principle but I cannot join you. I believe in the present effort which the allies are making to suppress German militarism. I would approve of America going to their assistance. I would enlist to that end, if ever there be a situation where I believe I could do more with my hands than I could with my pen.”
- “Men of unlimited means live lives of unbridled lust, and then, in their old age, they are helpless victims of their own impulses.”
- “All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
12 objects attributed to Upton Sinclair, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) 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.
In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his muckraking fictional novel, The Jungle, which exposed the labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the enactment a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of journalistic malpractice in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence" based on his wife Mary Craig Sinclair's book Southern Belle: A Personal Story of a Crusader's Wife. He is also well remembered for the quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." He used this line in speeches and the book about his campaign for governor as a way to explain why the editors and publishers of the major newspapers in California would not treat seriously his proposals for old age pensions and other progressive reforms. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of the industrialized United States from both the working man's and the industrialist's points of view. Novels such as King Coal (1917), The Coal War (published posthumously), Oil! (1927), and The Flivver King (1937) describe the working conditions of the coal, oil, and auto industries at the time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Upton Sinclair” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.