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 most of his childhood. His mother Priscilla, on the other hand, was a very strict mother. As Sinclair grew up, he and his mother did not get along very well. According to Wikipedia, Sinclair told his 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 own tuition, he wrote jokes and articles in weeklies and the like. After completing his studies there and graduating, he then enrolled for a time at Columbia University. Sinclair's main passion was writing, although his major was in law. While studying 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 have good commercial results, they were nevertheless very well received. These novels were "The Overman", "The Metropolis", "The Moneychangers" and "Love's Pilgrimage". In 1902, Upton Sinclair married a woman named Meta Fuller. However, soon after, in 1911, Meta Fuller had left Upton Sinclair for the poet Harry Kemp. Despite Sinclair's personal beliefs on marriage, Sinclair had an affair with a woman named Anna Noyes. Sinclair had it all...... middle of paper ......iting. In 1942, Sinclair published a book called “The Teeth of the Dragon,” which won him the Pulitzer Prize. His book “The Teeth of the Dragon” talks about the rise of Germany. Another author even said that he considered Sinclair not as a writer, but as a historian. Throughout his life, Upton Sinclair wrote more than ninety books. Upton Sinclair died in a small nursing home on December 18, 1968 in Bound Brook, New Jersey. Upton Sinclair was a changemaker because when he wrote the book “The Jungle” about the meat processing industry, he had changed the standards they needed. Without Sinclair, we might still have been eating dirty meat like this until 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. We can now be sure that our meat is no longer as dirty as before.