Just like everyone else, Upton Sinclair was a complete unknown. He was born some time ago, September 20, 1878. He was the son of Upton Beall Sinclair and Priscilla Harden, born in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, Sinclair Sr., was an alcoholic who was also a liquor salesman. His father's alcoholism was said to have overshadowed much of his childhood. His mother Priscilla, on the other hand, was a very strict mother. As Sinclair grew up, he and his mother didn't get along very well. According to Wikipedia, Sinclair had told her son to stay away from her and never see her for fear of controversy. When Upton Sinclair was about to turn fourteen, he entered the City College of New York. So that Sinclair could pay his tuition, he wrote jokes and articles in weeklies and the like. After finishing school there and graduating, he enrolled at Columbia University for a time. Sinclair's primary passion was writing, although his major was in law. During his time at Columbia University, Sinclair supported himself by writing short adventure stories and jokes. He had also managed to learn several languages ​​such as German, Spanish and French. After Sinclair left Columbia, he wrote four novels. Although they did not perform well commercially, they were still well received by critics. These novels were "The Overman", "The Metropolis", "The Moneychangers" and "Love's Pilgrimage". In the year 1902, Upton Sinclair married a woman named Meta Fuller. However, shortly thereafter, in 1911, Meta Fuller had left Upton Sinclair for the poet Harry Kemp. Despite Sinclair's personal beliefs about marriage, Sinclair had been having an affair with a woman named Anna Noyes. In 1942, Sinclair published a book titled “Dragon's Teeth,” which earned him the Pulitzer Prize. His book “Dragon's Teeth” is about the rise of Germany. Another author even stated that he considered Sinclair not a writer, but a historian. Over the course of his life, Upton Sinclair had written and published over ninety books. Upton Sinclair died in a small nursing home on December 18, 1968 in Bound Brook, New Jersey. Upton Sinclair was a bringer of change because when he wrote the book "The Jungle" about the meat packing industry, he had changed the standards they needed. If it weren't for Sinclair, we might still be eating disgusting meat like that today. But thanks to Upton Sinclair, we now have the Food and Drug Administration and have passed laws to prevent something like this from happening again. Now we can be sure that our flesh is no longer as dirty as before.