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A Short Biography of Upton Sinclair

Author Name:

Upton Sinclair

Born As:

Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.

Other Names:

Born:

20 Sep 1878

Died:

25 Nov 1968




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Novelist, writer, journalist and political activist                          
Selected Works:

Courtmartialed - 1898
Saved By the Enemy - 1898
The Fighting Squadron - 1898
A Prisoner of Morro - 1898
A Soldier Monk - 1898
A Gauntlet of Fire - 1899
Holding the Fort (story) - 1899
A Soldier's Pledge - 1899
Wolves of the Navy - 1899
Springtime and Harvest - 1901
The Journal of Arthur Stirling - 1903
Off For West Point - 1903
From Port to Port - 1903
On Guard - 1903
A Strange Cruise - 1903
The West Point Rivals - 1903
A West Point Treasure - 1903
A Cadet's Honor - 1903
Cliff, the Naval Cadet - 1903
The Cruise of the Training Ship - 1903
Prince Hagan - 1903
Manassas - 1904
A Captain of Industry - 1906
The Jungle - 1906
The Millennium (four-act drama) - 1907
The Overman - 1907
The Industrial Republic - 1907
The Metropolis - 1908
The Money Changers - 1908
Samuel The Seeker - 1909
Good Health and How We Won It - 1909
The Machine (novel) - 1911
King Coal - 1917
The Profits of Religion - 1917
Jimmie Higgins - 1919
The Brass Check - 1919
100% - The Story of a Patriot - 1920
The Spy - 1920
They Call Me Carpenter - 1922
The Goose-step: A Study of American Education - 1923
The Millennium (novel form) - 1924
The Goslings - 1924
Singing Jailbirds (play in four acts) - 1924
Mammonart - 1925
Money Writes! - 1927
Oil! - 1927
Boston - 1928
Mountain City - 1930
Mental Radio - 1930
Roman Holiday - 1931
The Wet Parade - 1931
American Outpost - 1932
Upton Sinclair presents William Fox - 1933
The Epic Plan for California - 1934
I, Candidate For Governor: And How I Got Licked - 1935
Co-op: a Novel of Living Together - 1936
No Pasaran!: A Novel of the Battle of Madrid - 1937
The Gnomobile- 1937
The Flivver King - 1937
Damaged Goods novel {based on a Eugène Brieux play); basis for 1937 movie from Grand National Pictures
Little Steel - 1938
Our Lady - 1938
Letters to a Millionaire - 1939
World's End - 1940
Between Two Worlds - 1941
Dragon's Teeth - 1942
Wide Is the Gate - 1943
The Presidential Agent - 1944
Dragon Harvest - 1945
A World to Win - 1946
A Presidential Mission - 1947
One Clear Call - 1948
O Shepherd, Speak! - 1949
Schenk Stefan! - 1951
The Return of Lanny Budd - 1953
The Cup of Fury - 1956
What Didymus Did - UK 1954 / It Happened to Didymus - US 1958
The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair - 1962 written with the help of Maeve Elizabeth Flynn III
There Will Be Blood - 2007 (based on the novel Oil!)                          
Mother  Priscilla Harden
Father Upton Beall Sinclair
First wife Meta Fuller
Second wife Mary Craig Kimbrough
Third wife Mary Elizabeth Willis                          
His 1906 novel The Jungle received a film adaptation in 1914.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - 1943

Upton Sinclair was the writer or producer of several films, including his involvement, in 1930-32, with Sergei Eisenstein, for Que Viva Mexico!. Charlie Chaplin got him involved in the project.

Sinclair's 1931 novel The Wet Parade was filmed the following year.
His 1937 novel, The Gnomobile, was the basis of a 1967 Disney musical motion picture, The Gnome-Mobile.

His 1927 novel Oil! was the basis of There Will Be Blood - 2007.

The film received eight nominations for an Oscar, and won two.