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Author Upton Sinclair Jr. Signature

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Author Upton Sinclair Jr. Signature
<B>Author Upton Sinclair Jr. Signature</B></I> on card 5.5" x 1.5", mounted on stiff card stock with a brief biographical sketch. Sinclair (1878 -1968), was a prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered one of the best investigative journalists of his era. Often advocating socialist views, he achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the twentieth century. He gained particular fame for his novel <I>The Jungle </B></I> which dealt with conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry and caused a public uproar that partly contributed to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. Between 1940 and 1953 Sinclair wrote 11 novels about an American named Lanny Budd that, read in sequence, detailed much of the political history of the Western world in the first half of the twentieth century. Almost totally forgotten today, they were all bestsellers upon publication and were published in 21 countries. The third book in the series, <I>Dragon's Teeth,</B></I> won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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