Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was an American author and one-time candidate for
governor of
California who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic
muckraking novel,
The Jungle (1906). It exposed conditions in the U.S.
meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act and the
Meat Inspection Act.
Time magazine called him "a man with every gift except humor and silen
While visiting America in 1916, Rabindranth met
the socialist writer of America , Upton Sinclair, in Pasadena station of California.He wrote a letter to Rabindranath on 3rd July 1923, informing him to remember their discussion at that time and promised to send copies of all the books to Santiniketan written by him. Having reached the books to Santiniketan Rabindranath wrote him a letter on 4th Sept congratulating him. He also mentioned his opinion about the book , "
The brass Check [1919]" after reading it,
" Your fearless stand for truth, for the things that are right, your view point of the humiliation that worship of money brings, its stifling quality, its empty arrogance, its insidious undermining of self-respect, its valuelessness, all the attributes which are its curse when dollars own the man; these ideas which you inculcated in this particular book immediately made a bend of sympathy. For years I have thought over these things, this especial phase of our modern civilisation, and only a few weeks ago I have myself finished a drama on the same subject." he also promised to send a copy of English version of "Raktakarabi", namely Redoleanders after being published. He maintained correspondence with him through letters upto the end of his life.
