Upton Beall Sinclair (1878 - 1968)

Born 20 Sep 1878 in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Craig (Kimbrough) Sinclair — married 21 Apr 1913 in Fredericksburg City, Virginia

Husband of Mary Elizabeth (Hard) Sinclair — married 14 Oct 1961 in Los Angeles, California, United States

Died 25 Nov 1968 at age 90 in Bound Brook, Somerset, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Upton Sinclair is Notable.

Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, "The Jungle" (1906).^[1]

In 1902, Sinclair married Meta Fuller, who had been a childhood friend and whose family was one of the First Families of Virginia. The couple had a child named David, born on December 1, 1901. Around 1911, Meta left Sinclair for the poet Harry Kemp, later known as the Dunes Poet of Provincetown, Massachusetts.^[1]

In 1913, Sinclair married Mary Craig Kimbrough, a woman from an elite Greenwood, Mississippi, family. They met when she attended a lecture he held about "The Jungle." In the 1920s, they moved to California. They were married until her death in 1961.^[1]

After Mary's death, Sinclair married Mary Elizabeth Willis.^[1]

"The Jungle" exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. In 1919, he published "The Brass Check," an exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the “free press” in the United States. Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silence." In 1943, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.^[1]

Sinclair ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a Socialist, and was the Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California in 1934, though his highly progressive campaign was defeated.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Wikipedia contributors, 'Upton Sinclair', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 6 June 2023, 17:06 UTC, <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Upton_Sinclair&oldid=1158853465> [accessed 10 July 2023]

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• Find A Grave: Memorial #1657; Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA