Americans generally are truly surprised and puzzled by Upton Sinclair’s fame abroad--by the fact that he seems to be regarded throughout the world as his country’s most distinguished literary figure.... So great is the discrepancy between his position in the world at large and his position in his own country, that a book about him may as well begin by offering some explanation, to bewildered American readers, of his world fame. Modern industrial America is a new portent in an old world; and the world has looked to American literature for realistic description and intellectual interpretation of it--and has found these things chiefly and best in the writings of Upton Sinclair. Other American …
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