Upton Beall Sinclair Jr.

                               (September 20, 1878-November 25,1968)

 An American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century and he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1943.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it."

                                                                                      -Upton Sinclair-