Jacob Riis

Born May 3, 1849

Ribe, Denmark

Died May 26, 1914

Barre, Massachusetts

Upton Sinclair

Born September 20, 1878

Baltimore, Maryland

Died November 25, 1968

Bound Brook, New Jersey

Lincoln Steffens

Born April 6, 1866

Sacramento, California

Died August 9, 1936

Carmel, California

Ida Tarbell

Born November 5, 1857

Hatch Hallow, Pennsylvania

Died January 6, 1944

Bridgeport, Connecticut

American journalists

"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."

—Upton Sinclair, on the public reaction to his 1906 novel The Jungle.

Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell...