UPTON SINCLAIR - STAMP(S) SIGNED - HFSID 286450
Price: $280.00
UPTON SINCLAIR
Signature in black ink across a stamp honoring Joseph Pulitzer
Stamp signed: "Upton Sinclair", 1½x1 US e-cent stamp honoring Joseph Pulitzer, mounted
on a 3½x2 card. Signature in black ink begins and ends on the mounting 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!. (2 surfaces) Fine
condition.
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