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Upton Sinclair
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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.
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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!
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Character
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1981
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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
Article · Español
Upton Beall Sinclair (Baltimore, Maryland; 20 de septiembre de 1878-Bound Brook, Nueva Jersey; 25 de noviembre de 1968) fue un escritor, muckraker, activista político estadounidense y candidato por el Partido Demócrata a gobernador de California en 1934, que escribió más de cien obras en diferentes géneros. El trabajo de Sinclair fue muy conocido y popular en la primera mitad del siglo XX, ganando el Premio Pulitzer de Ficción en 1943.En 1906, Sinclair adquirió particular fama por su clásica novela de muckraker La jungla, en la que expuso las condiciones laborales y sanitarias en la industria procesadora de carne en los EE. UU. levantando tal alboroto público que fue recibido en la Casa Blanca por el presidente Theodore Roosevelt, con lo que contribuyó, en parte, a la aprobración unos meses después de la Ley de Pureza de Alimentos y Medicamentos de 1906 y la Ley de Inspección de Carnes. En 1919, publicó The Brass Check, una intensa obra sobre el periodismo amarillo y las limitaciones de la "prensa libre" en los Estados Unidos. Cuatro años después de la publicación de The Brass Check, se creó el primer código deontológico para periodistas. La revista Time lo llamó "un hombre con todos los dones excepto el humor y el silencio". Es muy recordado por la cita: "Es difícil hacer que un hombre entienda algo, cuando su salario depende de que no lo entienda". La usó en discursos y el libro sobre su campaña para gobernador como una forma de explicar por qué los editores de los principales periódicos de California no tratarían con seriedad sus propuestas de pensiones de vejez y otras reformas progresistas. Se pueden leer muchas de sus novelas como obras históricas. Escribiendo durante la Era Progresista, Sinclair describe el mundo de los Estados Unidos industrializados tanto desde el punto de vista del trabajador como del industrial. Novelas como King Coal (1917), The Coal War (publicada póstumamente), ¡Petróleo! (1927) y The Flivver King (1937) describen las condiciones de trabajo de las industrias del carbón, el petróleo y la industria automotriz en ese momento.
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