In 1904 his Socialist contacts sent him to Chicago to write about the plight of meatpacking workers. He regarded as the secular religion of Socialism. Sinclair's several serious novels failed, and his marriage was in trouble when, in 1903, he turned to what Their son, David, was born the following year, in December 1901. At 20 he vowed to give up hack writing andĪt 21 he married the 18-year-old Meta Fuller. Hungry as a young shark, in his words, for money and fame, he began writing boys' stories at 16. Sinclair was one of the best educated American writers of his era, graduating from what is now City University of New York at 18 and attending classes at Columbia College for two more years, but he condemned American educationįor failing to explain and rectify social problems associated with poverty. The contrast between wealth and poverty troubled him and became his major theme. But he was also an indulged only child who often visited his mother's wealthy Living in cheap apartments in New York from the age of 10, Sinclair had personal experience of poverty. Sinclair's mother, Priscilla Harden, was by contrast Puritanical and strong-willed, 25, 1968) was a writer of novels of social protest and political tracts he is best known for his 1906 expose of the meatpacking industry, "The Jungle."īorn in Baltimore, Md., Sinclair was named for his father, an amiable alcoholic who became a symbol for feckless failure in the eyes of his son.
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