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The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair

Author
Upton Sinclair
Language
English
Length
322 pages
ISBN
9781802568165
Published
18 August 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • autobiography
  • social reform
  • muckraking journalism
  • socialism
  • progressive movement
  • literary life
  • political activism
  • 20th-century America
  • labor rights
  • American literature

Description

The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair offers a candid, sweeping account of the life and times of the renowned muckraking author and social reformer. From his impoverished childhood and early struggles as a writer to his rise as a literary and political force, Sinclair chronicles his evolution as a socialist, activist, and Pulitzer Prize winner. He reflects on landmark works like The Jungle, his role in shaping public policy, and his lifelong fight for justice, labor rights, and education. With honesty and wit, he shares personal triumphs, failures, and the ideological battles of the 20th century. A vital memoir of art, activism, and conscience.

Author

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.

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