The first time he ran as a Socialist candidate and garnered few votes. Unfortunately, it burned down four months later. He also attended the Columbia graduate school.Īfter writing The Jungle, Sinclair invested nearly $30,000 of the proceeds into the Helicon Home Colony, a utopian society being set up in New Jersey. To pay his way through City College of New York he wrote jokes and fiction for magazines and newspapers, as well as dime novels for the firm of Street & Smith. His father was an alcoholic and his immediate family was poor, but he often stayed with his wealthy maternal relatives in New York, allowing him to experience two extremes of American society. The family fortunes had suffered after the Civil War, and so Upton Sinclair had an unusual upbringing that mixed wealth and poverty. Navy then resigned to join the Confederate service. His grandfather, Captain Arthur Sinclair, served first in the U.S. His great-grandfather was Commodore Arthur Sinclair (died 1831), who had served in the War of 1812. His parents came from the Southern gentry, and his father's family had a distinguished naval tradition stretching back to the American Revolution. meat packing industry and caused a public uproar which ultimately led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. He gained particular fame for his novel, The Jungle (1906), which dealt with conditions in U.S. Upton Sinclair (SeptemNovember 25, 1968) wrote in many genres, often advocating Socialist views, and achieved considerable popularity in the early twentieth century.
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