American novelist Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland and came from Southern aristocracy. When Sinclair was ten, the family moved to New York. He started to write dime novels at the age of 15 and produced fiction articles magazines to finance his studies at New York City College. In 1897 he enrolled Columbia University, determined to succeed while producing one poorly paid novel per week. In 1900 Sinclair married his first wife which he later divorced in 1911. The unhappy marriage led to the writing of Springtime and Harvest, “a tale of penniless lovers.” By 1904 Sinclair started to move toward writing realistic fiction. He had become a regular reader of the Appeal to Reason, a socialist-populist weekly. With his strong development of socialistic views and interests, Sinclair began his work The Jungle, portraying a factual account of Chicago’s meat packing industry in fiction form. From 1915 Sinclair lived in Pasadena, California and later in Buckeye, Arizona. At the age of 24 he joined the Socialist Party. In 1934 he run for the governor of California, but failed on election - as in some other elections befo

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