업턴 싱클레어

소개

업턴 싱클레어(Upton Sinclair, 1878년~1968년)는 미국의 소설가이다. 메릴랜드주 볼티모어의 몰락한 명문에서 태어나 16세 때부터 문필활동에 들어갔다.

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He 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 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.