Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair studid at CUNY and Columbia, founded the California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and ran twice for Congress on the Socialist ticket. In 1905 he founded the Inter-Collegiate Socialist Society with Clarence Darrow, Jack London, Florence Kelly, Sinclair Lewis, and other writers and intellectuals. This organization later became the League for Industrial Democracy and finally the Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960’s. In 1934, ran for Governor of California on his ‘End Poverty in California’ (EPIC) program. By the time of His death, he had published over 90 works and several of his writings had been made into movies.
””’The Jungle””’ r | ”’Other Awards and Honors”’ r | *Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, 2015 | *Name engraved on the frieze of the Illinois State Library alongside other great Illinois literary figures, 1990 r | *Pulitzer Prize for Novel, 1943 r | r
King Midas : | Naturewoman. | Oil! : | The flivver king : | The jungle : | The machine | The metropolis | The moneychangers / | The profits of religion :