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Fuller (m. 1900, div. 1911, one son)<br><b>Son:</b> David (with Fuller)<br><b>Wife:</b> Mary Craig Kimbrough (m. 1913, d. 1961)<br><b>Wife:</b> Mary Elizabeth Willis (m. when he was 83, d. 1967)<br><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; University: <a href="/edu/691/000068487/">AB, City College of New York (1897)</a><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; University: <a href="/edu/477/000068273/">Columbia University (graduate work, 1897-1901)</a><br><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/org/448/000041325/">American Civil Liberties Union</a> <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <u>Emergency Committee for Southern Political Prisoners</u> 1930<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/org/041/000353976/">League of American Writers</a> <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/honors/278/000073059/">Pulitzer Prize for Fiction</a> 1943 for <i>Dragon's Teeth</i><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="/crime/368/000050218/">Disturbing the Peace</a> San Pedro, CA (15-May-1923)<br><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>Springtime and Harvest: A Romance</i> (<tt>1901</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Journal of Arthur Stirling ("Valley of the Shadow")</i> (<tt>1903</tt>, novel)<br><i>Manassas: A Novel of the War</i> (<tt>1904</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Jungle</i> (<tt>1906</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Metropolis</i> (<tt>1908</tt>, novel)<br><i>King Coal</i> (<tt>1917</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation</i> (<tt>1918</tt>, mysticism)<br><i>Jimmie Higgins</i> (<tt>1919</tt>, novel)<br><i>Mammonart</i> (<tt>1925</tt>, criticism)<br><i>Oil!</i> (<tt>1927</tt>, novel)<br><i>Boston</i> (<tt>1928</tt>, novel)<br><i>American Outpost: A Book of Reminiscences</i> (<tt>1932Z</tt>, memoir)<br><i>Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox</i> (<tt>1933</tt>, biography)<br><i>I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked</i> (<tt>1935</tt>, memoir)<br><i>World's End</i> (<tt>1940</tt>, novel)<br><i>Between Two Worlds</i> (<tt>1941</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Return of Lanny Budd</i> (<tt>1953</tt>, novel)<br><i>My Lifetime in Letters</i> (<tt>1960</tt>, letters)<br><i>The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair</i> (<tt>1962</tt>, memoir)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=24585"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=24585">Upton Sinclair</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=24585" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright &copy;2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>

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