Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), born in Maryland, was a novelist and political writer whose works often focused on social injustices. His muck-raking novel The Jungle, about the working conditions in the meat-packing industry, led to the passage a few months later of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. His novel Dragon’s Teeth, a study of the rise of Nazism and part of the eleven-book Lanny Budd series, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. Sinclair died at the age of ninety, having written more than ninety books, thirty plays, and numerous works of journalism.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Wise as Serpents, a novel excerpt, in Stories of the Week: 2017–2018