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A habitational surname derived from the English places
A male given name transferred from the surname
Any of several places in England (derived from upper town) and elsewhere
A town in Maine
Any of several places in England (derived from upper town)
A male given name derived from the surname
An English habitational surname derived from the English places
{i} male first name; family name (derived from an archaic English word meaning "upper town"); town in Massachusetts (USA); town in Long Island (New York, USA); name of several towns and cities in U.K

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Upton Beall Sinclair
born Sept. 20, 1878, Baltimore, Md., U.S. died Nov. 25, 1968, Bound Brook, N.J. U.S. novelist. He was supporting himself as a journalist when an assignment led him to write The Jungle (1906), a best-selling muckraking exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards. A landmark among naturalistic, proletarian novels, it aroused great public indignation and resulted in the passage of the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act. Many other topical novels followed, as well as the successful Lanny Budd series of 11 contemporary historical novels featuring an antifascist hero, beginning with World's End (1940) and including Dragon's Teeth (1942, Pulitzer Prize). In the 1930s Sinclair organized a socialist reform movement and won the Democratic nomination for governor of California
Upton Sinclair
a US writer who wrote The Jungle, a novel about the meat-packing industry in Chicago, which showed that the workers were badly treated and the food was not clean and was likely to cause disease (1878-1968). born Sept. 20, 1878, Baltimore, Md., U.S. died Nov. 25, 1968, Bound Brook, N.J. U.S. novelist. He was supporting himself as a journalist when an assignment led him to write The Jungle (1906), a best-selling muckraking exposé of conditions in the Chicago stockyards. A landmark among naturalistic, proletarian novels, it aroused great public indignation and resulted in the passage of the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act. Many other topical novels followed, as well as the successful Lanny Budd series of 11 contemporary historical novels featuring an antifascist hero, beginning with World's End (1940) and including Dragon's Teeth (1942, Pulitzer Prize). In the 1930s Sinclair organized a socialist reform movement and won the Democratic nomination for governor of California
Upton Sinclair
{i} (1878-1968) United States author and social activist
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