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  2. Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Upton Beall Sinclair Sr. and Priscilla Harden Sinclair. His father was a liquor salesman whose alcoholism shadowed his son's childhood. Priscilla Harden Sinclair was a strict Episcopalian who disliked alcohol, tea, and coffee.

  3. May 17, 2024 · Upton Sinclair (born September 20, 1878, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died November 25, 1968, Bound Brook, New Jersey) was a prolific American novelist and polemicist for socialism, health, temperance, free speech, and worker rights, among other causes.

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  4. Sinclair divorced his first wife in 1913. The autobiographical (based on his own life) novel Love's Pilgrimage (1911) treats his marriage and the birth of his child with an honesty that shocked some reviewers. Sinclair married Mary Craig Kimbrough in 1913.

  5. Apr 2, 2014 · Sinclair was born in a small row house in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 20, 1878. From birth, he was exposed to dichotomies that would have a profound effect on his young mind and greatly...

  6. After accepting the assignment, Sinclair lived in Chicago for nearly two months, studying the people and the working conditions of the industrial town. His observations became The Jungle, his next serious novel.

  7. Mar 18, 2021 · 1. The Jungle was commissioned by a socialist newspaper editor. Upton Sinclair, who was born in 1878, began his literary career as a teenager. While enrolled at the City College of New York,...

  8. Whether in Baltimore or later in New York City, his parents often lived in squalor, moving from one cheap boarding house or hotel to another and sharing rooms with rats and bedbugs....

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