
Poverty, Sinclair had been, in his words, a "perfect little snobĪnd a tory" until he discovered socialism in 1902. October 1904, "almost drives me mad." Despite lifelong "The life I am living," he wrote to novelist Owen Wister in Impoverished, unhappily married, and devastated by his failures. Had just been published and it had, like his three previous novels,įailed to garner either readers or positive reviews. Sinclair's fourth book, the Civil War novel Manassas, Research the meatpacking industry in a section of Chicago called Son in a cold, dilapidated farmhouse outside Princeton, New Jersey, to Late in 1904, 26-year-old Upton Sinclair left his wife and young

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