About the Author
Thomas Allen McNeal (1853-?) was born on an Ohio farm to a modest upbringing. He began as a newspaper man, co-owning the Medicine Lodge Cresset. Then he moved on to the more successful publication, Kansas Breeze, later editing the paper. He achieved acclaim with his book When Kansas was Young.
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) is best remembered for The Jungle (1906), his fictionalized exposé of the unsanitary and unfair working conditions that characterized the U.S. meatpacking industry. He won a Pulitzer-Price in 1943. A lifelong progressive, he ran for the governor of California in 1934.
