Upton Sinclair vs. Mark Twain

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair

1878 – 1968

Politics
United States

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.

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"I discover that hardly a week passes that some one does not start a new cult, or revive an old one; if I had a hundred life-times I could not know all the creed…"

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain

1835 – 1910

Literature
United States

Mark Twain (1835) was an American writer and humorist, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."

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Connections

Mark Twain was influenced by Upton Sinclair
Shared era: 1878 – 1910