Upton Sinclair 
The Jungle 

The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878 to1968). The novel portrays the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.

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Upton Sinclair – Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair’s work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.