This is a new edition of the autobiography of Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair (1883-1961). She started life innocently and happily on her father's Mississippi Delta plantation but went on to know deprivation and danger when she married Upton Sinclair, the crusading social activist. As she joined him in his struggles to rescue the disinherited of the earth, collaborating with him in writing a shelf of books, she gave up the moonlight and magnolias but not her grace. After her death, Sinclair recalled her as the loveliest woman ...
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This is a new edition of the autobiography of Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair (1883-1961). She started life innocently and happily on her father's Mississippi Delta plantation but went on to know deprivation and danger when she married Upton Sinclair, the crusading social activist. As she joined him in his struggles to rescue the disinherited of the earth, collaborating with him in writing a shelf of books, she gave up the moonlight and magnolias but not her grace. After her death, Sinclair recalled her as the loveliest woman I have ever known. She moved North with him and began an exhilarating new life. He was a Socialist and the celebrated muckraker whose novel The Jungle (1906) was an expos??? of the meatpacking industry. Later, in 1943, he would win the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Dragon's Teeth . Through him she became involved in social causes and came to know many of America's intellectuals including such eminent figures in the literary and political worlds as Walter Lippman, Sinclair Lewis, Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, and Art Young. With her husband she traveled throughout the United States and Europe. Her story is filled with many great names--including Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Dreiser, H. L. Mencken, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks--whom she and Sinclair counted among their friends. As a child she once sat on Jefferson Davis's knee. In her girlhood she was instructed in the southern graces. Later she would be immersed in the world of demonstrations, distress, and political pamphleteering for the liberal causes she and her husband espoused. Their marriage of forty-eight years was extraordinary and happy. Sinclair recalled her as the helpmeet of a man who set out to help in the ending of poverty and war in the world. . . . It required many crusades in which he bankrupted himself and her as well. It required a year-long entanglement in a bitter political campaign [for the California governorship]. She helped him to write and publish three million books and pamphlets. Of her book he said, This is the story of a southern belle, told by a real one.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. 407 p. Includes index. LCCN 62013777 Type of material Book Personal name Sinclair, Mary Craig. Main title Southern belle. With a foreword by Upton Sinclair. Edition Memorial ed., with pref. and additions. Published/Created Phoenix, Ariz., Sinclair Press, c1962. Description 407 p. illus. 23 cm. LC classification PS3537. I847 Z5 1962 LC Subjects Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. Notes Autobiography.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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Fair. Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Acceptable-This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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Dust Jacket Included. First edition. Octavo. 2 page foreword by Upton Sinclair. Original 1/2 black stamped blue cloth over red cloth. Dust jacket (unclipped). Very good. No signatures or bookplates.
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Dust Jacket Included. Signed by Author(s) New York, Crown Publishers [1957]. First edition. 8vo. 2 page foreword by Upton Sinclair. Original 1/2 black stamped blue cloth over red cloth. Dust jacket (unclipped). Very good. Signed and inscribed by Upton Sinclair on the front free endpaper: "To Bettie Borell, with sincere regards." Also signed by Mary.
