Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1878. He earned a B.A. at the City College of New York in 1897 and studied law at Columbia University but left without a degree. He wrote nearly a hundred books and other works.
He is best known for The Jungle (1906), an exposé of meatpacking conditions that helped to spur federal food-safety legislation. His Lanny Budd series, eleven novels published from 1940 to 1953, includes Dragon's Teeth (1942), which won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize. He died in Bound Brook, New Jersey, in 1968.
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