Upton Sinclair

Upton Beall Sinclair (September 20th 1878 - November 25th 1968) is an American writer.

Prolific author (more than 90 works), follower of several kinds, it was one of the promoters of the Socialisme to the the United States. He was acquired a particular fame with his novel the Jungle (1905), which described the demolition of the animals and the conditioning of the meat. The reaction of the public to the practices thus denounced led to the Meat Inspection Act same year. It belongs to the journalists and writers engaged in the denunciation of the inequalities of America of the beginning of the century, gathered by Theodore Roosevelt under the name of Muckrakers , “excavation-shit”.

Biography

The parents of Sinclair came notable from the South of the United States. The family of its father flattered itself of a tradition of service in the navy going up until the Guerre of American independence. His/her grandfather, the commodore Arthur Sinclair had thus been useful in the Guerre of 1812 in the United States Navy (marine American) before resigning to join the rows of the Confederation at the time of the American Civil War.

Upton Sinclair was born however with Baltimore, Maryland, the engagement of its family at the sides of the Confederation having weighed on family fortune. Upton Sinclair lived a childhood thus mixing richness and poverty. His/her father was alcoholic and its close family was poor, but the Upton young person made long stays with New York in an easy branch of the family of his mother. This experiment of the two extremes of the american company undoubtedly pushed it towards the Socialisme.

To pay off its schooling with the City College New York, Sinclair wrote tickets of humor and stories for the press, as well as novels of station for the editor Street & Smith . It could thus continue its schooling with the Université of Columbia.

He lived then the essence of his life close to Pasadena, California then with Buckeye, Arizona and finally with Bound Brook, New Jersey. He was married three times.

Its house ( Upton Sinclair House ) with Morovia, California is classified historical heritage ( National Historic Landmark ).

Upton Sinclair the activist

Its first great success was Manassas (1904), a novel around the American Civil War. It was to be the first volume of a trilogy, but the striking down success of the Jungle encouraged it to change vein, although it returned to Manassas of the years to revise it deeply later.

With the incomes drawn from the sale of The Jungle , Upton Sinclair founded a named socialist community Helicon Home Colony in 1906. It was joined there by the writer Sinclair Lewis. The colony was devastated by a fire in 1907.

It was in addition by twice candidate at the post of Governor of California, the first time as a Socialist, the second as a Démocrate, benefitting from the notoriety which its movement EPIC had brought to him (( End Poverty In California ). Its second attempt failed vis-a-vis a campaign which presented it like the spearhead of a communist coup d'etat , while at the same time the Communists did not forgive him to be associated with Hollywood to adapt Que Viva Mexico City of Eisenstein. Although its countryside was a failure, one remembers it like the first where were implemented of the techniques like the cinematographic electoral messages.

That Viva Mexico City

Of 1931 with 1933, Sinclair tried to produce a film entitled That Viva Mexico City , directed and by-product by Sergueï Eisenstein. Poor producer, Sinclair did not manage to level the difficulties related to the relationships to Soviet cinema industry, and finishes with between 150000 and 200000 feet of incomplete reels.

The Lanny Budd

Between 1940 and 1953, Sinclair wrote 11 novels centered around the characters of Lanny Budd. Conceived like a series, these novels covered the political history of Europe and the United States for all first half of the 20th century. Almost forgotten today, this series had an enormous success, the third volume Dragon' S Teeth obtaining the Prix Pulitzer in 1943.

Works

All the precise details on works of Upton Sinclair were done starting from the French éditon of 1963, republished by 10/18 in 1975 (2nd trim.), in two volumes. In the series Harry Turtledove, American Worsens , Sinclair gains presidential 1920 vis-a-vis Theodore Roosevelt and becomes the first socialist president of the United States.

• In the Net off the Visconti , 1899
• has Battle with Misfortune , 1900
• Springtime and Harvest ( King Midas ), 1901
• The Journal off Arthur Stirling , 1903
• Prince Hagen , 1903
• Manassas, has Novell off the Civil War 1904 ( Manassas , 1948)
• The Jungle , 1905 ( the Jungle , 2 vol., 1905 & 1906)
• has off Captsin Industry, Being has off Story Civilized Man , 1906 ( It Novel of the King of gold , 1907)
• The Overman , 1907
• The Metropolis , 1908 ( Metropolis, Multimillionnaires in New York , 1909)
• The Moneychangers , 1908 ( money Brewers, 1910)
• Samuel the Seeker , 1910 ( Samuel the researcher , 1931)
• Love' S Pilgrimage , 1911 ( the Pilgrimage of love , 1911)
• The Convict , 1912
• Sylvia , 1913
• Damaged Goods , 1913
• The Millenium , 1914
• Sylvia' S Marriage , 1914
• King Coal , 1917 ( the King coal , 2 vol., 1920)
• Jimmie Higgins goes to War , 1918 ( Jimmie Higgins, novel of an American workman during the war , 1920)
• 100% The Story off has Patriot , 1920 ( 100 per 100, Histoire of a patriot , 1924)
• They Call Me carpenter , 1922 ( Christ with Hollywwood , 1947)
• Oil! , 1927 (3 vol.: Oil, the City of the angels, the Head of Holopherne , 1928,1929,1931)
• Money Writes! , 1927
• Boston, has Contemporary Historical Novel - 1928 ( Boston , 2 vol., 1932) Roman inspired by the Business Sacco and Vanzetti.
• Mountain City, 1929
• Romance Holiday , 1931 ( Circus games , 1947)
• The Wet Parades , 1931
• What God Means to Me: year Attempt At has Working Religion , 1936 ( How I believe in a God , 1937)
• Co-COp, has Novell off Living room Together , 1936
• The Gnomobile , 1936 ( In Gnomobile through America , 1936)
• The Flivver King , 1937 ( the King of the car: Henry Ford , 1938)
• No Pasaran! (They Shall Not!) , 1937 ( No Pasaran! (They will not pass!) , 1937)
• Little Steel , 1938
• Our Lady , 1938 ( Notre Dame Marya de Nazareth , 1947)
• Another Pamela gold The True Vertue Still Rewarted , 1950 ( Pamela , 1950)
• What Didymus Did , 1954 ( Holy Thomas d' Hollywwod , 1956)
• Affectionately Eve , 1961

• World' S End , 1940 ( End of a world , 1947)
• Between Two Worlds , 1941 ( Between two worlds , 1950)
• Dragon' S Teeth , 1942 ( Claws of the Dragon , 1950)
• Wide is the Spoils , 1943 ( the Large door , 1952)
• Presidential Agent , 1944 ( Secret mission , 1952)
• Dragon Harvest , 1945 ( the Harvest of the Dragon , 1954)
• has World to Win , 1946
• Presidential Mission , 1947
• One Clear Cal , 1948
• O Shepherd, Speak! , 1949
• The Return off Lanny Budd , 1953

• The Jungle , 1906
• The Second-Story Man ( has Drama with has Socialistic Moral ) - 1909
• Prince Hagen , 1909
• John D. An Adventure , 1910
• The Machin , 1911
• Plays off Protest , 1912
• Hell, has Pours Drama and Photo-Play , 1923
• The Millenium: has Comedy off the Year 2000 , 1924
• The Pot-Boiler , 1924
• Singing Jailbirds , 1924
• Bill Porter: Drama off the Prison Life has off O. Henry , 1925
• Oil! , 1929
• Marie-Antoinette , 1939 ( Mary and Her To coil - 1948)
• has Giant Strength , 1948
• The Enemy had it Too , 1950