Upton Sinclair

Dec 20, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Upton Sinclair |Edmund Gordon

Upton Sinclair​ was born in 1878 to a Baltimore family of rapidly diminishing respectability. His father was a whisky salesman who drank a good deal more than he ever managed to sell. When things got especially bad, Sinclair’s mother would seek refuge in the home of her own father, who was secretary-treasurer of the Western Maryland Railroad, or that of her sister, who was married to one of the richest men in Baltimore.

Sep 4, 2023 | audiofilemagazine.com | Upton Sinclair

By 1962, when he published his final autobiography, muckraker extraordinaire Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was 83 years old; he had lived a full life and written more than 80 novels, countless articles, and 30 plays. Narrator Peter Lerman nicely mixes Sinclair's urgent staccato prose with the more accessible feel of the author's reminiscences of dealing with an alcoholic father and seeking self-improvement through diet and writing in a cabin in the woods.

Aug 1, 2023 | powells.com | Shirley Hazzard |Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh |Bob Johnson |Upton Sinclair

When I started writing Mobility, I was interested in describing life from the perspective of a teenage girl in a place that’s unfamiliar to her, applying her fairly stereotypical teen interests to a very adult setting — the oil rush in newly independent Azerbaijan in the late 1990s, when representatives of multinational oil companies and freelance mercenaries flooded the former Soviet Union to capitalize on the spoils of its dissolution.

Feb 3, 2023 | citylights.com | Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair’s searing indictment of fossil fuels that predicts our current warming planet while imagining a greener and more inclusive future A Penguin Classic Perhaps most well-known today as the inspiration for Paul Thomas Anderson’s film , Upton Sinclair’s novel burst into the literary limelight amid soaring petroleum profits and gaping inequalities in 1927.