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I can find no relationship to the Duchess of Windsor. I am from Missouri "Show me" Reality check time. Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, Upton Beall Sinclair, was a liquor salesman whose alcoholism shadowed his son's childhood. Priscilla Harden, his mother, came from a relatively wealthy family. She hated alcohol and did not even drink coffee or tea. When Sinclair was ten, the family moved to New York. His father sold hats and spent his evenings in bars. Later Sinclair said: "...as far back as I can remember, my life was a series of Cinderella transformations; one night I would be sleeping on a vermin-ridden sofa in a lodging house, and the next night under silken coverlets in a fashionable home. It all depended on whether my father had the money for that week's board." Sinclair ref The Consequences of Land Speculation are Tenantry and Debt on the Farms, and Slums and Luxury in the Cities by Upton Sinclair The Profits of Religion, by Upton Sinclair [ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@quarterman.org [ To get off or on the list, see http://sinclair.quarterman.org/list.html