Editing Upton Sinclair (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Mrs. Upton Sinclair LCCN2014686229.jpg|thumb|Meta Fuller Sinclair]]
[[File:Upton Sinclair grave.jpg|thumb|Sinclair's grave in [[Rock Creek Cemetery]], Washington, D.C.]]

In April 1900, Sinclair went to [[Lake Massawippi]] in [[Quebec]] to work on a novel, renting a small cabin for three months and then moving to a farmhouse where he was reintroduced to his future first wife, Meta Fuller (1880–1964). A childhood friend descended from one of the [[First Families of Virginia]],<ref name="Harris, Leon 1975" /> she was three years younger than he and aspired to be more than a housewife, so Sinclair instructed her in what to read and learn.<ref name="Harris, Leon 1975" /> Though each had warned the other against it, on October 18, 1900, they married. The couple having used abstinence as their main form of contraception, Meta became pregnant the following year. Despite Meta's several attempts to terminate the pregnancy,<ref name="Harris, Leon 1975" /> the child, David, was born on December 1, 1901.{{efn|David Sinclair (1901–1987) became a physicist.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/26/obituaries/david-sinclair-is-dead-researcher-in-physics.html|title=David Sinclair Is Dead; Researcher in Physics|date=26 October 1987|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>}}<ref name="nyt_obit" /> Meta and her family tried to convince Sinclair to give up writing and get "a job that would support his family."<ref name= "Harris, Leon 1975" />

Sinclair was opposed to sex outside of marriage and viewed it as necessary only for reproduction.{{Sfn|Arthur|2006|pp=96–97}} He told his first wife Meta that only the birth of a child gave marriage "dignity and meaning".{{Sfn|Arthur|2006|pp=46–47}} Despite his beliefs, Sinclair had a love affair with Anna Noyes during his marriage to Meta. He wrote a novel about the affair called ''Love's Progress'', a sequel to ''Love's Pilgrimage''. It was never published.{{Sfn|Arthur|2006|p=109}} His wife later had a love affair with John Armistead Collier, a theology student from Memphis; they had a son together named Ben.{{Sfn |Arthur|2006|pp=111–12}}

In 1910, the Sinclairs moved to the [[Georgism|single-tax]] village of [[Arden, Delaware]], where they built a house.<ref name="Deseret News 2012">{{cite web |title=Walking tour celebrates history of Arden community |website=Deseret News |date=2012-10-15 |url=https://www.deseret.com/2012/10/15/20441842/walking-tour-celebrates-history-of-arden-community |access-date=2020-12-02}}</ref> In 1911, Sinclair was arrested for playing tennis on the Sabbath and spent eighteen hours in the [[New Castle County]] prison in lieu of paying a fine.<ref name="The New York Times 1911">{{cite web |title=Upton Sinclair in Jail; With Ten Others for Violating Delaware's Sunday Law. |website=The New York Times |date=1911-08-02 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/08/02/archives/upton-sinclair-in-jail-with-ten-others-for-violating-delawares.html |access-date=2020-12-02}}</ref><ref name="Arden Claims Upton Sinclair 1934">{{cite news |title=Arden Claims Upton Sinclair |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20851342/arden-claims-upton-sinclair-1934g/ |newspaper=The News Journal |location=Wilmington, DE |date=1934-09-01 |page=6 |oclc=760300114 |access-date=2020-12-02}}</ref> Earlier in 1911, Sinclair invited [[Harry Kemp]], the "Vagabond Poet", to camp on the couple's land in Arden.<ref name="Leech">{{Cite journal |last=Leech |first=Steven |title=Comedy and Romance in Arden, Delaware |journal=The Broadkill Review |volume=10 |issue=2 |issn=1935-0538 |oclc=76893150 |pages=1, 19–20 |url=https://www.academia.edu/24556947}}</ref><ref name="Brevda 1986">{{cite book |last=Brevda |first=William |chapter=Love's Coming-of-Age |title=Harry Kemp, the last Bohemian |publisher=Bucknell University Press Associated University Presses |publication-place=London |year=1986 |isbn=978-0838750865 |oclc=610117506 |pages=55–65 |url=https://archive.org/details/harrykemplastboh0000brev |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/harrykemplastboh0000brev/page/54/mode/2up |url-access=registration}}</ref> Meta soon became enamored of Kemp, and in late August she left Sinclair for the poet.<ref name="nyt_obit" /><ref name="Brevda 1986"/> Sinclair, unable to obtain a divorce in New York, traveled to the Netherlands for a [[migratory divorce]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Riley | first=Glenda | title=Divorce: An American Tradition | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=1991 | isbn=0195061233| page=131 }}</ref>
An Amsterdam court declared their marriage annulled May 24, 1912 on the basis of adultery by Meta. Sinclair declared before the court that they were both living in Hilversum, The Netherlands, Meta being temporarily in New York.

In 1913, Sinclair married [[Mary Craig Sinclair|Mary Craig Kimbrough]] (1882–1961), a woman from an elite [[Greenwood, Mississippi]], family who had written articles on [[Winnie Davis]], the daughter of Confederate States of America President [[Jefferson Davis]]. They met when she attended one of his lectures about ''The Jungle''.{{Sfn|Arthur|2006|pp=118–19}} In 1914 he moved to [[Croton-on-Hudson, New York]], joining the local community of prominent socialists.<ref>
{{cite web
| url          = https://tantor.com/author/upton-sinclair.html#:~:text=In%201914%2C%20Sinclair%20moved,of%20social%20protest%2C%20The%20Cry%20for%20Justice.
| title        = Tantor Media – Upton Sinclair
| date         = 2020
| website      = Tantor Media
| access-date  = 2023-02-18
| quote        = "In 1914, Sinclair moved to Croton-on-Hudson, a small town close to New York City where there was a substantial community of radicals. He pleased his socialist friends with his anthology of social protest, The Cry of Justice"
}}</ref>
In the 1920s, the couple moved to [[Long Beach, California]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-12-13 |title=Long Beach archivist donates Upton Sinclair collection to Cal State Dominguez Hills |url=https://www.presstelegram.com/2013/12/13/long-beach-archivist-donates-upton-sinclair-collection-to-cal-state-dominguez-hills/ |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=Press Telegram |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Times |first=The New York |date=2008-02-22 |title='Oil!' and the History of Southern California |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/timestopics/topics_uptonsinclair_oil.html |access-date=2025-02-03 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> They remained married until her death in 1961.

Later that same year, Sinclair married his third wife, Mary Elizabeth Willis (1882–1967).<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5288919/mrs_upton_sinclair_authors_wife_dies/|title=Mrs. Upton Sinclair, Author's Wife, Dies| work= The Bridgeport Post |location=Bridgeport, Connecticut|date=20 Dec 1967|page=72|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=17 May 2016}}</ref> They moved to [[Buckeye, Arizona]], before returning east to [[Bound Brook, New Jersey]], where Sinclair died in a nursing home on November 25, 1968, a year after his wife.<ref name="nyt_obit">{{Citation |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0920.html |title=Upton Sinclair, Author, Dead |date=November 26, 1968 |access-date=June 2, 2018}}.</ref> He is buried next to Willis in [[Rock Creek Cemetery]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]