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Date of Birth

20 September 1878, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Date of Death

25 November 1968, Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA

Birth Name

Upton Beall Sinclair

Spouse

Mary Elizabeth Hard Willis	(14 October 1961 - 18 December 1967) (her death)
Mary Craig Sinclair	(21 April 1913 - 26 April 1961) (her death)
Meta Fuller	(18 October 1900 - June 1912) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

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Pulitzer-winning American writer, he was the Democratic nominee for California Governor in 1934. He ran for office on other occasions as a Socialist.

Out of his own pocket, he sent copies of his novel "The Jungle" to every member of the U.S. Congress and then-President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt, a voracious speed-reader who read several books a day, read Sinclair's novel and was horrified by the descriptions of conditions in the meat packing industry. He was inspired to champion for the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, which led to the founding of the Food and Drug Administration.

Biography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, volume 7, pages 451-457. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., 1982.

Biography in: "Dictionary of American Biography". Supplement Eight, 1966-1970, pages 593-595. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988.

Biography in: "Current Biography Yearbook 1962". Pages 389-391. The H.W. Wilson Company, 1963.

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