Editing Upton Sinclair (section)

==Career==
[[File:Upton Sinclair, portrait bust, studio at 56 Fifth Ave., N.Y. LCCN2014680784 Trim.jpg|thumb|right|Upton Sinclair early in his career]]
Sinclair considered himself a poet and dedicated his time to writing poetry.<ref name= "Harris, Leon 1975" /> In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks in disguise, working undercover in Chicago's meatpacking plants to research his novel ''[[The Jungle]]'' (1906), a political exposé that addressed conditions in the plants, as well as the lives of poor immigrants. When it was published two years later, it became a bestseller. In the spring of 1905, Sinclair issued a call for the formation of a new organization, a group to be called the [[Intercollegiate Socialist Society]].<ref name=Laidler16>{{cite journal| first= Harry W. |last= Laidler| title= Ten Years of ISS Progress| journal= The Intercollegiate Socialist| volume= 4| number= 1 |date= October–November 1915| page= 16}}</ref>

With the income from ''The Jungle'', Sinclair founded the utopian—but non-Jewish white only—[[Helicon Home Colony]] in [[Englewood, New Jersey]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-upton-sinclair-turned-the-jungle-into-a-failed-new-1015213490 |title= How Upton Sinclair Turned The Jungle Into a Failed New Jersey Utopia| website= gizmodo.com| date= 8 August 2013 |first= Matt| last= Novak |access-date= 11 May 2020 }}</ref> He ran as a Socialist candidate for Congress.<ref>{{Cite news| title = Upton Sinclair's Colony To Live At Helicon Hall. Luxury In Co-Operation And There May Be Some Compromises Just At First |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/10/07/101801402.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116100358/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/10/07/101801402.pdf |archive-date=2018-11-16 |url-status=live |work= [[The New York Times]] | date = 7 October 1906 |access-date= 22 August 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Paulin |first=LRE |date=March 1907 |title= Simplified Housekeeping: The Present Quarters of Upton Sinclair's Colony At Englewood, New Jersey |journal=Indoors and Out: The Homebuilder's Magazine |volume= III |issue= 6 | pages = 288–292 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=P0BAAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA288 | access-date = 2009-08-16}}</ref> The colony burned down under suspicious circumstances within a year.<ref>{{Cite news | title= Fire Wipes Out Helicon Hall, And Upton Sinclair Hints That the Steel Trust's Hand May Be In It| url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/03/17/104704238.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430150251/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/03/17/104704238.pdf |archive-date=2020-04-30 |url-status=live | work = [[The New York Times]] |date=17 March 1907 |access-date=22 August 2009 }}</ref>

[[File:Upton Sinclair LCCN2014696036.jpg|thumb|left|Upton Sinclair wearing a white suit and black armband, picketing the [[Standard Oil Building (New York City)|Rockefeller Building]] in New York City]]

In 1913–1914, Sinclair made three trips to the coal fields of Colorado, which led him to write ''[[King Coal]]'' and caused him to begin work on the larger, more historical ''[[The Coal War]].'' In 1914, Sinclair helped organize demonstrations in New York City against Rockefeller at the Standard Oil offices. The demonstrations touched off more actions by the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (IWW) and the ''Mother Earth'' group, a loose association of anarchists and IWW members, in Rockefeller's hometown of Tarrytown.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Coal War |last= Graham |first= John|publisher=Colorado Associated University Press|year=1976|isbn=0-87081-067-7|location=Boulder |pages=lvi–lxxv| url=https://archive.org/details/coalwar00upto}}</ref>

The Sinclairs <!--Which wife was this? Needs name-->moved to [[Pasadena, California]] in 1916 and lived there for nearly four decades. During his years with his second wife, Mary Craig, Sinclair wrote or produced several films. Recruited by [[Charlie Chaplin]], Sinclair and Mary Craig produced [[Sergei M. Eisenstein|Eisenstein's]] ''[[¡Que viva México! (unfinished film)|¡Qué viva México!]]'' in 1930–32.<ref>{{Citation | title = Cinescene | url = http://www.cinescene.com/dash/eisenstein2.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020112075404/http://www.cinescene.com/dash/eisenstein2.htm | url-status = usurped | archive-date = January 12, 2002 | first = Chris | last = Dashiell | contribution = Eisenstein's Mexican Dream | year = 1998 | access-date = June 16, 2010}}.</ref>