Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, muckraker, and political activist. He was famous for his 1906 muckraking novel, The Jungle.
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The famous novel about government and business corruption in the early 20th century by muckraker author Upton Sinclair.
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- “The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by author and socialist journalist Upton Sinclair. It was written about the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century. The novel depicts in harsh tones the poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the ‘have-nots,’ which is contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption on the part of the ‘haves.’”
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Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American writer, muckraker, and political activist. He was famous for his 1906 muckraking novel, The Jungle, “which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act” (source: Wikipedia). He won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Dragon’s Teeth.
