Upton Sinclair Jr. was an American writer who wrote nearly one hundred books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.Wikipedia
Born: September 20, 1878, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Died: November 25, 1968, Bound Brook, New Jersey, United States
Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Hard Willis (m. 1961–1967), Mary Craig Sinclair (m. 1913–1961), Meta Fuller (m. 1900–1911)
Upton Sinclair looked to use his book, "The Jungle," published in 1906, to expose the harsh conditions imposed on workers in Chicago's stockyards and meatpacking district.
“They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not been able to get a decent existence for their bodies?”
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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