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sep 20 Learn More Upton Sinclair Born
We're willing to bet that when you hear the name Upton Sinclair, you think of things like the meatpacking industry, unsanitary operating conditions, maybe a worker or two falling into a rendering tank and being ground into hamburger—you know, fun stuff. But did you know that the muckraking author of The Jungle —who was born on this day in 1878—also wrote a children's book? A children's book called The Gnomobile: A Gnice Gnew Gnarrative with Gnonsense, but Gnothing Gnaughty? He did, and in 1967, Disney even made it into a movie. It had absolutely nothing to do with the Chicago stockyards.
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