The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Sinclair, Upton Beall
Sinclair, Upton
Beall
(
1878
–
1968
),
American
novelist and journalist, born in Baltimore, who paid his way through the College of the City of New York by writing novels, and continued to write prolifically in many genres. He is best known for his novel The Jungle (
1906
), an exposé of the Chicago meat-packing industry to which the public reacted so violently that an investigation of the yards was instituted by the US government; it also marks a conversion to socialism on the part of its author and of its protagonist, Slav immigrant Jurgis Rudkus. Sinclair's many other works include The Metropolis (
1908
), King Coal (
1917
), Oil! (
1927
), and Boston (
1928
); and a series with international settings featuring Lanny Budd, illegitimate son of a munitions manufacturer, who appears in World's End (
1940
), Dragon's Teeth (
1942
), The Return of Lanny Budd (
1953
), and...
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