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Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) wrote The Jungle and a long shelf of muckraking novels in which industry is the villain. The Chicago stockyards novel was meant to convert readers to socialism; it converted them to food reform instead — and still stands as American protest fiction at documentary heat. Sinclair kept going: oil, coal, journalism, politics, a career of books used as weapons. He ran for office, won a Pulitzer later in life, and never lost the preacher's urgency. With 38 titles in our catalogue, he remains the writer who treated the novel as an investigation you could not look away from.

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