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Upton Sinclair

The index holds one work for Upton Sinclair so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.

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Works about or by Upton Sinclair. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.

Contempo records, 1930-1934

Contempo · 1930

Records of 'Contempo, a review of books and personalities', the Chapel Hill literary magazine, covering 1930 to 1934, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4408. Milton Abernethy and Tony Buttitta are among the people covered, along with writers the magazine dealt with: William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings and H. L. Mencken.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.

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