been defeated, and whose whole being is one all devouring,

God-given holy purpose", declared Upton Beall Sinclair. This

man is not only an American novelist, essayist, journalist, but

also deeply involved in politics. He has accomplished so

many things throughout his life span, it is tough to compare

him to anyone else. Until Sinclair was in his later life, he

was an unknown failure to many, but then for forty years

after that, he was America's most important writer.

Sinclair was born in Baltimore on the 20th of

September in 1878. He was born in near poverty conditions

to his dysfunctional family consisting of his father who

drank himself to death, and his mother a southern aristocrat.

He taught himself to read and write by the time he was

five years old. By the time he was 14, he had already

graduated the City College of New York. He furthered his

education by becoming a special student at Columbia

University. He was supporting himself and paying his own

Sinclair ended up paying for the other damage. The profit he

education by writing and selling book. While

same impact as Harriet Beecher Stowe's book called Uncle

next couple of novels he wrote. Within the two years, he

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