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...Cass Timberlane now acquired new importance, that was chiefly due to the fact that the hundreds of thousands of men & women who would read his new novel had, while he was writing it, made the U.S. the No. 1 power in the world to which (with Novel ist Upton Sinclair) he was America's No. 1 interpreter...
...Upton Sinclair. TIME reviewed Wide Is the Gate, vol. 4 of Author Sinclair's serial-in-progress. Dragon Harvest is vol. 6. And the doldrums are more than midsummer...
...UPTON SINCLAIR...
...circulation. They have followed every change in public taste from the Western plains to the sea, to the air, to cops & robbers, and back to cowboys. At the crest, when it sold 95 million magazines and pulps a year, S. & S. had a stable of such writers as Upton Sinclair (who wrote under the name of Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.), Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton and 0. Henry...
...Wells's Outline in 1921 did factual books of general or topical interest begin to rival romance and adventure. But topicality, whether in fact or fiction, has proved no more certain an index to popularity than literary merit. With its sensational expose of the "meat trust" in 1906, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle created a furore worthy of Zola and led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act. But on the year's best-seller list it was handily topped by the newest novels of three perennial favorites, Winston Churchill, Owen Wister (Lady...