AKA Upton Beall Sinclair

Born: 20-Sep-1878
Birthplace: Baltimore, MD
Died: 25-Nov-1968
Location of death: Bound Brook, NJ [1]
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist
Party Affiliation: See Note [2]

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Jungle

[2] Twice Socialist candidate for Governor of California, switched to Democratic for the 1934 election.

Father: Upton Beall Sinclair (traveling salesman)
Mother: Priscilla Harden
Wife: Meta H. Fuller (m. 1900, div. 1911, one son)
Son: David (with Fuller)
Wife: Mary Craig Kimbrough (m. 1913, d. 1961)
Wife: Mary Elizabeth Willis (m. when he was 83, d. 1967)

    University: AB, City College of New York (1897)
    University: Columbia University (graduate work, 1897-1901)

    American Civil Liberties Union
    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1943 for Dragon's Teeth
    Disturbing the Peace San Pedro, CA (15-May-1923)

Author of books:
Springtime and Harvest (1901, novel)
The Journal of Arthur Stirling (1903, novel)
Manassas (1904, novel)
The Jungle (1906, novel)
The Metropolis (1908)
King Coal (1917, novel)
The Profits of Religion (1918, novel)
Jimmie Higgins (1919, novel)
Mammonart (1925)
Oil! (1927, novel)
Boston (1928, novel)
American Outpost: A Book of Reminiscences (1932, memoir)
Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox (1933, biography)
I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935, political memoir)
World's End (1940, novel)
Between the Two Worlds (1941, novel)
The Return of Lanny Budd (1953, novel)
My Lifetime in Letters (1960, letters, written to Sinclair)
The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair (1962, memoir)

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