UPTON SINCLAIR - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 174577
Price: $450.00
UPTON SINCLAIR
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author penned this letter on his personalized letterhead to say
that he couldn't fulfill a request: "I'm reading proofs & also getting moved, which with an
invalid wife, takes all my time & thought."
Autograph letter signed "U Sinclair" in pencil. 1 page, 8½x5½ , on Sinclair's personalized
letterhead. Dated "Sunday". In full: "Miss A Sorry, but I'm reading proofs & also getting
moved, whichwith an invalid wife, takes all my time & thought. Yrs". American writer
Sinclair (1878-1968) is best known for The Jungle, his 1906 novel exposing the horrors of
the Chicago meat-packing industry. His other novels include The Money Changers (1908),
King Coal (1917) and Oil! (1927). Sinclair was also active in politics, organizing the socialist
EPIC (End Poverty in California) movement during the Great Depression and running for as
Democratic candidate for Governor of California in 1934. In the 1940s, Sinclair wrote an
11-volume series about contemporary American character, "Lanny Budd", who travels through
time and meets historical figures; Dragon's Teeth(1942) won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction. Eight of his books have been adapted for film and TV, including There Will Be
Blood(2007), which was based on Oil!. Lightly toned and creased. Folded twice and
unfolded. Otherwise, fine condition.
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