Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was born on September 20, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland to an unsuccessful, salesman father and a wealthy mother. Upton Sinclair, at age ten, moved to New York with his family and began his education which later on he was able to enter the College of New York City at age fourteen with the help of his book Pulp Fiction and graduated in 1897. In 1900, he moved to New Jersey and married Meta Fuller. A year later he wrote his first novel Springtime and Harvest which was renamed King Midas and he also had his first son, David. In 1906, Sinclair wrote his sixth novel, The Jungle, which gave him a great amount of profit which he used to found a Socialist cooperative in Englewood, New Jersey. In 1911, Sinclair and his wife wanted a divorce, but couldn’t in America, so they moved to Holland to obtain it and in 1913 he moved back to America and married Mary Kimbrough. In 1915, he moved to Pasadena, California where he ran for office many times, but was unsuccessful. Sinclair, being very politically active, started EPIC (End Poverty in California) in the 1930’s, which was a social reform movement. Then in 1934, Sinclair ran for governor as a democrat and was unsuccessful again. In 1961, Sinclair’s wife, Mary Kimbrough, died and he became remarried for the third time to Marry Elizabeth Willis, who died in 1967. Finally, on November 15, 1968 Sinclair died at the age of ninety. Upton Sinclair lived a long, successful life publishing 90 books in 47 languages and in 39 countries.
The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, was a book that supported Socialism. Sinclair was trying to reveal to the people that there are problems with capitalism and that socialism is the answer. He shows that socialism can work if a lot of people are willing to take the initiative and make the society equal. He writes The Jungle with a very strong attitude toward his main goal, which is equality. In The Jungle, Sinclair uses Jurgis Rudkus to emphasize the struggle immigrants...