Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual

Acknowledgments

xv Acknowledgments Over the past fifteen years, I became acquainted with a fascinating group of Sinclair scholars, who generously shared their work with me.I am profoundly grateful to Ron Gottesman,John Ahouse,and to Robert Hahn for their enthusiasm, their kindness, and their tremendous body of knowledge. Along the way to this biography, I was able to edit a collection of Sinclair’s writings in and about California. I thank Malcolm Margolin for bringing Land of Orange Groves and Jails to fruition, and the Mesa Writers Refuge for offering me the opportunity to begin my book there.I thank the Lilly Library for the Everett Helm Fellowship, which allowed me to spend time in the archives, and library staff Cherry Williams and Zach Downey for their generous assistance in this project. For their constant encouragement, I thank Harvey Schwartz, Lisa Rubens, Cita Cook, Nils McCune, Gregg Coodley,Anita Catlin,Stephanie Grohs,and Cathy Mathews. My deepest appreciation to Karen Brown, Paula Amen Judah, Caitlin Vega,and Steve Hiatt,who each provided brilliant editorial insights. Lauren Ellsworth aided mightily as a research assistant. She, and later Hillary Schwartz, handled all technical aspects of production with grace and humor. I offer a most fervent thanks to Matt Bokovoy and the University of Nebraska Press for their interest in my work. To all of you who kept faith with me in the Acknowledgments xvi Sinclair project over these many years: here it is. This book is dedicated to the two Sinclair biographers, Dieter Herms and Sachiko Nakada, whose work remains to be translated into English, and to the “common reader” whose devotion paved the way for the Sinclair scholarship of today, Edward Allatt. Danke Arigatō Thank you upton sinclair ...