Lauren Coodleylink is a professor of California history at Napa Valley College and a Sinclair scholar. In 2004, her first two books were published. "Napa: the Transformation of an American Town" is based on archival photographs and original interviews conducted by Professor Coodley and her students, and is published by Arcadia Publishing. "The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California", which she edited, is based on her decade of research into Sinclair's life in California and is being published as part of the "California Legacy" series by Santa Clara University and Heyday Books. The title of her book, The Land of Orange Groves and Jails", is a phrase borrowed by Sinclair from the Wobblies during the days of their arrests under California's criminal syndicalism laws.
"Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California" link to Amazon
Review of "The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California", SF Chronicle, January 12, 2005. link
Review of "The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California", SF Bay Guardian. link
Websites about Upton Sinclair
"End Poverty in California The EPIC Movement' by Upton Sincliar THE LITERARY DIGEST asked Upton Sinclair, then the Democratic candidate for Governor of California, to contribute this article on the ?outstanding issues of the forthcoming campaign and the fundamental problems confronting the country to-day.? This article is published by the Virtual Museum of The City of San Francisco.
Sinclair Would Place Jobless on Ranches published by the Virtual Museum of The City of San Francisco
Biography of Upton Sinclair published by the History of Social Security website
Biography of Upton Sinclair published by the Historical Society of S. California
