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LIB South 5039, 5th floor
Cover of October 22, 1934 Time Magazine, showing Upton Sinclair during his unsuccessful campaign to become California's governor.
Upton Sinclair's most famous and influential novel, The Jungle, published in 1906.
Sinclair's campaign plan for the 1934 election, which he lost.
John Ahouse-Upton Sinclair Collection, (1895-2014). This collection consists of materials by and about American writer and political figure Upton Sinclair collected by bibliographer John Ahouse, author of Upton Sinclair, A Descriptive Annotated Bibliography. The collection comprises several types of materials, including:
The books of the John Ahouse - Upton Sinclair Collection include all the fiction and nonfiction books Sinclair wrote in his long career. Most of these were collected by John Ahouse while he was compiling Upton Sinclair, A Descriptive Annotated Bibliography. These books have been removed from the rest of the collection and placed in the Special Collections Rare Book Room while they are being cataloged. They include:
Archives & Special Collections is continuing Ahouse's work by searching for and adding editions of Sinclair's books that were previously not recorded or could not be located. The 360-plus books of the collection currently cataloged are searchable in the University Library Online Catalog, using John Ahouse / Upton Sinclair Collection as the search term.