(1885-1951) a US writer of novels, including MAIN STREET, BABBITT, and Elmer Gantry, in which he makes fun of life in small US towns. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.
(1878-1968) a US writer who wrote The Jungle, a novel about the MEAT-PACKING industry in Chicago, which showed that the workers were badly treated and the food was not clean and was likely to cause disease