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...UPTON SINCLAIR Monrovia, Calif...
...UPTON SINCLAIR...
...narrow life: "Let us be great lovers! Let us be mad! Let us stride over the hilltops!" Those were the sentiments on which Harry Sinclair Lewis, a doctor's son of New England ancestors, consciously patterned his life. He went to Yale, worked as janitor at Upton Sinclair's Socialist community of Helicon Hall in New Jersey, lived on rice in a California seaside cottage. In 1919, after publishing six conventional novels, all failures, he set out to write what he called the "great American novelhighbrow and realistic...
...Lampoon missed its greatest opportunity when it came up with a rather crude satire of the column, "Impressions of Parliament," a pleasantly flippant account of the Parliamentary proceedings of the week. The effect of giving the legislators such names as Mr. K. G. Skeemer, Mr. Upton AdamBoyse, Lord Elpus, and Earl Ebyrd is simply to crush whatever little joke is being hatched at that point. The vast humor opportunities of dealing really lightly with British governmental and social foibles are almost buried...
...Upton Sinclair showed that he was capable of a change of pace. Sticking to his promise to ditch his ubiquitous, ten-novel hero, Lanny Budd, he wrote Another Pamela; or, Virtue Still Rewarded, a sly gibe at rich, talky parlor liberals seen through the wide eyes of an ingenuous housemaid. His literary model: 18th Century Novelist Samuel Richardson's famed Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded...