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Upton Sinclair - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Upton Sinclair - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Writer, Producer, Director of the film.
September 20, 1878, Baltimore, Maryland, USA - November 25, 1968, Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA - American writer who has published over 90 books in various genres, one of the pillars of revelatory journalism and socialist activist.
Need forced his father to take up the wine trade, which from early childhood affected Sinclair's extremely hostile attitude towards alcohol - an active promoter of a sober lifestyle. To pay for his college studies, at the age of 15, he becomes a tabloid literary day laborer - his first experiments are designed for a very undemanding taste, while studying at Columbia University, he publishes his first novels "King Midas" (King Midas, 1901) and "Prince Hagen" (Prince Hagen, 1903).
He led a social movement called “End Poverty in California!” which tried to solve unemployment problems by organizing cooperative production in abandoned factories.
The photo in Autobiography (1962) speaks volumes about Sinclair's creative legacy - 85-year-old, but still full of energy, the writer is captured next to a stack of books that exceeds his height - books by his authorship. There is no sphere of American life, no genre in which it would not leave a mark: drama, novel, story, pamphlet, memoirs, journalistic studies and sociological works, film scripts and literary anthologies compiled by him. Translated into over 60 languages, he was once one of the world's most widely read writers. The manuscripts of his archive are almost half a million pages, - in a gigantic epistolary heritage - tens of thousands of letters from one and a half thousand famous writers, scientists, artists and politicians.
World problems, marked by the brightest events - this is the element that fills his books with all the diversity of its manifestations.
He gained fame with the release of the sociological novel "The Jungle" (The Jungle, 1906) - events of both literary and social.
In 1927, Sinclair published the novel Oil! In 2007, based on the novel, a feature film "Oil" was shot, which was nominated for an Oscar in 8 nominations.
At the invitation of Charlie Chaplin, Sinclair was the producer of Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished film Long Live Mexico!
Sinclair's 1943 novel Dragon's Teeth won the Pulitzer Prize.
Upton Sinclair has been on the left since 1903, joining Jack London as one of the leading socialist advocates in American literature. In 1904 he became one of the organizers of the "Socialist Society of United Secondary Educational Institutions".
In 1923, Sinclair was arrested at a rally in support of the Industrial Workers of the World syndicalist union as he read the Bill of Rights.
ran for the House of Representatives (in 1920) and the Senate (in 1922) from the Socialist Party of America, but in 1934 he was nominated for governor of California from the Democratic Party.
In Harry Turtledave's "American Empire" cycle of alternate history, Sinclair wins elections in 1920 and 1924 and serves as the first socialist president of the United States.
