THE JUNGLE Upton Bell Sinclair Jr. was born on September 20, 1878 in Baltimore. Later, he moved to New York and supported himself writing pulp fiction. In 1901, he privately published his first novel, Springtime and Harvest (later named King Midas). The Jungle, was Upton Sinclair’s sixth novel and first commercially successful work and with part of his proceeds he founded a Socialist cooperative in Englewood, New Jersey. Sinclair wrote many novels after The Jungle, such as …showed first 75 words of 1607 total…

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