![]() ![]() Horace Fletcher’s Fast The Fasting Cure by Upton Sinclair. Northwest Society Archaeological Institute of America Sinclair wrote close to one hundred books during his lifetime, including Oil! (1927), the inspiration for the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood Boston (1928), a documentary novel revolving around the Sacco and Vanzetti case The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism, and the eleven novels in Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd series. In 1915, he moved to California, where he founded the state’s ACLU chapter and became an influential political figure, running for governor as the Democratic nominee in 1934. The book received great critical and commercial success, and Sinclair used the proceeds to start a utopian community in New Jersey. To research The Jungle, he spent seven weeks working undercover in Chicago’s meatpacking plants. He wrote dime novels and articles for pulp magazines to pay for his tuition, and continued his writing career as a graduate student at Columbia University. Born into an impoverished family in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair entered City College of New York five days before his fourteenth birthday. Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, activist, and politician whose novel The Jungle (1906) led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. ![]()
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