Sinclair, Upton - Washington, DC

Upton Sinclair
Washington, DC
N 38° 56.813 W 077° 00.832

Upton Sinclair - Grave Marker

Setting

 The grave of Pulitzer Prize winning author and social-political activist Upton Sinclair is located in section 17 of Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC. A horizontal, ground level marker consisting of a bronze plaque set on a a granite base is inscribed:

UPTON SINCLAIR

1878 - 1968

Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore MD on September 20, 1878. He was educated at the City College of New York and Columbia University. He launched his career as an investigative novelist by working in Chicago meatpacking plants. This led to the publishing of his 1906 novel The Jungle, in which he exposes horrid working conditions. His novel Dragon's Teeth (1942), the third in a series of 11 novels in the Lanny Budd series, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1943.

Throughout his prolific career he wrote numerous novels, works of non-fiction, and dramas. 

Fiction:

Unseen Upton Sinclair: Nine Unpublished Stories, Essays and Other Works. Engs, Ruth Clifford, ed. - 2009
Courtmartialed – 1898
Saved By the Enemy – 1898
The Fighting Squadron – 1898
A Prisoner of Morro – 1898

A Soldier Monk – 1898
A Gauntlet of Fire – 1899
Holding the Fort – 1899
A Soldier's Pledge – 1899
Wolves of the Navy – 1899
Springtime and Harvest – 1901
The Journal of Arthur Stirling – 1903
Off For West Point – 1903
From Port to Port – 1903
On Guard – 1903
A Strange Cruise – 1903
The West Point Rivals – 1903
A West Point Treasure – 1903
A Cadet's Honor – 1903
Cliff, the Naval Cadet – 1903
The Cruise of the Training Ship – 1903
Prince Hagen – 1903
Manassas: A Novel of the War – 1904, reissued in 1959 as Theirs be the Guilt
A Captain of Industry – 1906
The Jungle – 1906
The Overman – 1907
The Industrial Republic – 1907
The Metropolis – 1908
The Moneychangers – 1908, reprinted as The Money Changers
Samuel The Seeker – 1910
Love's Pilgrimage – 1911
Damaged Goods – 1913
Sylvia – 1913
Sylvia's Marriage – 1914
King Coal – 1917
Jimmie Higgins – 1919
Debs and the Poets – 1920
100% - The Story of a Patriot – 1920
The Spy – 1920
They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming – 1922
The Millennium – 1924
The Goslings: A Study of the American Schools – 1924
The Spokesman's Secretary – 1926
Money Writes! – 1927
Oil! – 1927
Boston, 2 vols. – 1928
Mountain City – 1930
Roman Holiday – 1931
The Wet Parade – 1931
American Outpost – 1932
The Way Out – 1933
Immediate Epic – 1933
The Lie Factory Starts – 1934
The Book of Love – 1934
Depression Island – 1935
Co-op: a Novel of Living Together – 1936
The Gnomobile – 1936, 1962
Wally for Queen – 1936
No Pasaran!: A Novel of the Battle of Madrid – 1937
The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America – 1937
Little Steel – 1938
Our Lady – 1938
Expect No Peace – 1939
Marie Antoinette (novel) – 1939
Telling The World – 1939
Your Million Dollars – 1939
World's End – 1940
World's End Impending – 1940
Between Two Worlds – 1941
Dragon's Teeth – 1942
Wide Is the Gate – 1943
Presidential Agent – 1944
Dragon Harvest – 1945
A World to Win – 1946
A Presidential Mission – 1947
Upton Sinclair Anthology - 1947
A Giant's Strength – 1948
Limbo on the Loose – 1948
One Clear Call – 1948
O Shepherd, Speak! – 1949
Another Pamela – 1950
Schenk Stefan! – 1951
A Personal Jesus – 1952
The Return of Lanny Budd – 1953
What Didymus Did – UK 1954 / It Happened to Didymus – US 1958 Theirs Be the Guilt – 1959
Affectionately Eve – 1961
The Coal War – 1976

Non-Fiction:

Good Health and How We Won It: With an Account of New Hygiene (1909) – 1909
The Fasting Cure – 1911
The Profits of Religion – 1917
The Brass Check – 1919
The McNeal-Sinclair Debate on Socialism – 1921
The Book of Life – 1921
The Goose-Step – 1923
Mammonart. An essay on economic interpretation. – 1925
Letters to Judd, an American Workingman – 1925
Mental Radio: Does it work, and how? – 1930, 1962
Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox – 1933
We, People of America, and how we ended poverty : a true story of the future – 1933
I, Governor of California - and How I Ended Poverty – 1933
The Epic Plan for California – 1934
I, Candidate for Governor - and How I Got Licked – 1935
Epic Answers: How to End Poverty in California (1935) – 1934
What God Means to Me – 1936
Upton Sinclair on the Soviet Union – 1938
Letters to a Millionaire – 1939

Drama:

Plays of Protest: The Naturewoman, The Machine, The Second-Story Man, Prince Hagen – 1912
The Pot Boiler – 1913
Hell: A Verse Drama and Photoplay – 1924
Singing Jailbirds: A Drama in Four Acts – 1924
Bill Porter: A Drama of O. Henry in Prison – 1925
The Enemy Had It Too: A Play in Three Acts – 1950