Upton+Sinclair+&+The+Jungle


 * Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.** ([|September 20], [|1878] – [|November 25], [|1968]), was a [|Pulitzer Prize]-winning prolific [|American] author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators advocating [|socialist] views. He achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the 20th century. He gained particular fame for his 1906 [|muckraking] novel //[|The Jungle]//, which dealt with conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry and caused a public uproar that partly contributed to the passage of the [|Pure Food and Drug Act] and the [|Meat Inspection Act] in 1906

Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, an explosive novel that depicted wretched and unsanitary conditions at a meatpacking plant