Upton Sinclair was a prolific American novelist, essayist, playwright, short story writer, and juvenile book writer, whose works reflected the social problems of 19th Century industry. Sinclair was born in Baltimore into a family of ruined Southern aristocracy where he remained until he was ten years of age, The family moved to New York and by the time he Sinclair Lewis was fifteen, he begun writing dime novels and short stories for pulp magazines to finance his studies at New York City College and Columbia University. Sinclair's productivity continued through out his life as he published almost 100 books with his most famous works being the novels, the Jungle which was about the Chicago Meat-Packing industry published in 1906 and Dragon's teeth, published in 1943 for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Famous Baltimorians