Reminiscences of Upton Sinclair, 1962

Biographical Note

Author

Scope and Contents

Background, youth and education; early experiments in writing; comments on friends; THE JUNGLE and other muckraking books; life in experimental communities and colonies, Helicon Hall; Lanny Budd books; Socialist Party; strikes and arrests; EPIC and campaign for California governorship, 1934; DEAD HAND series; OIL; movie industry; William Fox; THE BRASS CHECK; self help cooperative; child labor. Impressions of many American writers

Subjects

• Authors--Interviews.
• California--Politics and government--1850-1950.
• Collective settlements--United States.
• Fiction.
• Gottesman, Ronald, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968--Interviews.
• Socialist Party of the United States of America.
• Utopias.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972