Biography of Upton Sinclair



• Name: Upton Biol Sinclair Jr.
• Birth: 20 September 1878, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Father: Upton Beel Sinclair Senior
• Mother: Priscilla Hardon Sinclair
• Wife / Husband: Meta Fuller, Mary Craig Cambrose, Mary Elizabeth Willis.

Early life of Upton Sinclair:


        Upton Bull Sinclair Jr was an American author, who wrote about 100 books and other compositions in many genres. In the first part of the 20th century, Sinclair's work was well-known and popular, and in 1943 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

        In 1906, Sinclair achieved special fame for the classic classic-rehearsing novel The Jungle, which highlighted labor and sanitary conditions in the MeatPacking industry in the US, resulting in a public upheaval, which made the food of 1906 and a few months After passing the Controlled Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act.

        In 1919, he published The Bros Czech, a satirical disclosure of American journalism, which publicized the issues of yellow journalism and the boundaries of "free press" in the United States. Four years after the publication of The Brass Check, the first Code of Ethics was made for journalists. Time magazine called them "a person with every gift except for humor and silence". He is also well remembered for the line: "It is difficult for a person to understand something, when his salary depends on his absence."

        Upton Sinclair was born on September 20, 1878 in a small ro-house in Baltimore, Maryland. From birth he was exposed to those dualities which have a profound influence on their young mind and later affect their thinking in life. The only child of a drunken liquor seller and a strong, willed mother, she was standing on the edge of poverty, but also with her mother's rich family, was informed about the privilege of the upper class through visits.

        When Sinclair was 10 years old, his father took the family to New York City from Baltimore. By this time, Sinclair had already started developing a deeper intellect and was a vicious reader who used to work on Shakespeare and Percy Bysche Shelley during every waking time. At the age of 14, he attended City College of New York and began selling children's stories and comic pieces to magazines. After graduating in 1897, he enrolled in Columbia University to continue his studies and wrote dime novels to support himself, using the pseudonym.

        His public stance changed dramatically in 1905, when the Socialist Weekly Appeal Two Reason sent Sinclair to the undercover to investigate the situations in Chicago's Stockhurds. The result of his seven-week investigation was The Jungle, which was first published in 1905 due to appeals and then in 1906 as a book serial.

        However, it was intended to create sympathy for the exploited and poorly abused migrant workers in the meat industry, instead of the novel, there was a widespread public outcry over low quality and impurities in processed meat and thus helped in passing the passage of federal food inspection laws. Found. As Sinclair commented at that time, "I targeted the heart of the people and by mistake I killed it in the stomach."

        World's End (1940) launched an eleven-segment novel series of Sinclair, trying to give an idea of ​​an American government's insider between 1913 and 1949. One of the novels, Dragon's tooth (1942), a study of the rise of Nazism (a German political) in the 1930s movement whose followers humiliated democracy and all "inferior" non-German, especially the Jewish people ), Won the Pulitzer Prize.

        Before his death on November 25, 1968, Sinclair produced more than ninety books, which earned at least $ 1 million, most of it contributed to socialist and reform reasons.
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