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Upton Sinclair
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amerikansk författare, journalist och politisk aktivist (1878-1968)
Upton Sinclair was an American writer who lived from 1878 to 1968 and became known for exposing social and economic injustices in his work. His writings were influential in bringing attention to problems in American society, making him an important figure in early 20th-century reform movements.
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Upton Sinclair Jr. was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muckraking novel The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking…
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Sinclair
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Baltimore
- Place of death
- Bound Brook
- Occupation
- playwright
- Educated at
- City College of New York
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Oil!
- Founded by
- Helicon Home Colony
- Image
- Upton Sinclair LCCN2014686178 cropped2.tif
- Significant event
- Nazi book burnings
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- pseudonym
- Frederick Garrison
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Commons Creator page
- Upton Sinclair
- place of burial
- Rock Creek Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1878-09-20
- date of death
- 1968-11-25
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- name in native language
- Upton Sinclair
- writing language
- English language
- start of work period
- 1898-00-00
- Commons category
- Upton Sinclair
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Works in European collections
12 objects attributed to Upton Sinclair, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr., född 20 september 1878 i Baltimore, Maryland, död 25 november 1968 i , Somerset County, New Jersey, var en amerikansk författare, journalist och politisk aktivist.
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