UPTON SINCLAIR - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 54301
Price: $140.00
UPTON SINCLAIR
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Upton Sinclair's signature in blue ink, affixed to a yellow
index card
Signature: "Upton Sinclair", 5x1¼ irregularly cut, affixed to 5x3 card. 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!. Card is lightly creased.Glue stain touches the "U".
Name written (unknown hand) beneath signature touches the "S". Light tear in bottom right
corner of signature. Otherwise, fine condition.
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