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Upton Sinclair

Born

in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States

September 20, 1878

Died

November 25, 1968

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Literature & Fiction

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Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle (1906). To gather information for the novel, Sinclair spent seven weeks undercover working in the meat packing plants of Chicago. These direct experiences exposed the horrific conditions in the U.S. meat packing 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. The Jungle has remained continuously in print since its initial publication. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of Am ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 178,511 ratings · 11,021 reviews · 740 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 156,933 ratings — published 1906 — 2224 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oil! 3.74 avg rating — 7,622 ratings — published 1926	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World's End 4.16 avg rating — 1,490 ratings — published 1940 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragon's Teeth (World's End Lanny Budd, #3) 4.08 avg rating — 1,143 ratings — published 1942 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King Coal by Upton Sinclair, Georg Brandes (Introduction) 4.05 avg rating — 1,028 ratings — published 1917 — 197 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Two Worlds 4.31 avg rating — 658 ratings — published 1941 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America by Upton Sinclair, Steve Meyer (introduction) 3.76 avg rating — 595 ratings — published 1937 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moneychangers 3.79 avg rating — 568 ratings — published 1908 — 184 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wide Is the Gate (The Lanny Budd Novels #4) 4.31 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 1943 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragon's Teeth I 3.71 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 1942 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Upton Sinclair (?)

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding

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“I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”
― Upton Sinclair

tags: about-the-jungle, disappointment

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“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
― Upton Sinclair

tags: capitalism, fascism, upton-sinclair

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3rd Quarter (July-September 2026) Long Read Poll

Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1017 pages, 1853

51 votes, 36.4%

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 939 pages, 1936

40 votes, 28.6%

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 850 pages, 1991

18 votes, 12.9%

World's End by Upton Sinclair, 740 pages, 1940

15 votes, 10.7%

California Gold by John Jakes, 658 pages, 1989

9 votes, 6.4%

Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, 758 pages, 1998

5 votes, 3.6%

Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairbairn, 933 pages, 1966

2 votes, 1.4%

140 total votes

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