Upton Sinclair was an American writer who was well known for his muckraking novel The Jungle which was written in 1906. In this book Sinclair exposes the horrible conditions in the meat packing industries where workers get burned by chemicals or lose a finger, this novel helped cause the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. He also wrote a book in 1919 which was another muckraking exposé on yellow journalism in America which was the government’s ability to control what gets published and not publish the writers who are exploiting, exaggerating or distorting the news
