While doing research about Upton Sinclair for a book titled, Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century, author Carl Jensen discovered a little known, unpublished, and unproduced play Sinclair wrote in 1907. It was titled, The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000.

Intrigued by the coincidence of the upcoming new millennium and the title of Sinclair's play, Jensen did some additional research at the Sinclair archives in the Lilly Library at Indiana University. He then found that Sinclair rewrote the play as a novel in 1924. He tracked down the Sinclair estate in New York and purchased the rights to reprint it. Following is a brief resume of Jensen's background.

Carl Jensen, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at Sonoma State University, part of the California State University system. He also is founder and Director Emeritus of Project Censored, America's longest-running research project on news media censorship.

Jensen has been involved with the media for more than 50 years as a daily newspaper reporter, weekly newspaper publisher, public relations practitioner, advertising executive, educator, and author. He spent 15 years with Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn, the international advertising agency, where he was an award-winning copywriter, account supervisor, and vice president. He left BBDO in 1970 to return to school.

Specializing in mass communications, Jensen received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1971, 1972, and 1977, respectively.

He taught media, sociology, and journalism courses at SSU from 1973 to 1996; he created the University's B.A. degree program in Communication Studies and its Journalism Certificate Program.

He founded the Lincoln Steffens Journalism Award for Investigative Reporting in Northern California in 1981 and helped develop Project Censored Canada in 1994. Jensen has written and lectured extensively about press censorship, the First Amendment, and the mass media. He has been a guest on many radio/television news and talk shows. He was interviewed by Bill Moyers for an hour-long PBS television documentary titled "Project Censored," 1991; he was a panelist in a PBS "Odyssey" television documentary, "Media Under Siege--Headlines or Hype?" 1998; and he appeared in a television documentary, "Project Censored: Is the Press Really Free?" narrated by Martin Sheen, 1999.

He is the author of the annual Project Censored Yearbook, CENSORED: The News That Didn't Make the News ... And Why, (1990-1996), Seven Stories Press, New York-- 20 Years of Censored News, 1997, Seven Stories Press-- Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century, 2000, Seven Stories Press--The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000, 2000, Seven Stories Press--Ready Reference: Censorship, 1997, Salem Press, Pasadena, an award-winning three-volume encyclopedic set on censorship-- Jensen was commencement speaker at Mendocino College in 1979, a featured speaker at the national convention of the American Library Association in Los Angeles in 1983, and speaker at the annual convention of the California Newspaper Publishers Association in San Francisco in 1989.

Jensen was cited by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in 1988 for "providing a new model for media criticism." The Giraffe Project honored Jensen in 1988 for "sticking his neck out for the common good" and for being a "role model for a caring society."

The San Francisco-based Media Alliance press organization presented Jensen with the 1989 Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award in the "Unimpeachable Source" category. The Society of Professional Journalists in Los Angeles awarded him its 1990 Freedom of Information Award.

In 1996, Jensen was named the Outstanding University Professor of Journalism in California by the California Newspaper Publishers Association and was awarded the 1992 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment award in education from the Playboy Foundation for defending the First Amendment.

In 1996, Jensen received The James Madison Freedom of Information Award for Career Achievement from the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists; the University President's Award for Appreciation for "Dedicated Service to Sonoma State University;" and was cited for outstanding achievement by the Sonoma State University Academic Senate.

His 1996 Project Censored Yearbook received the first national Firecracker Award from the American Wholesale Book Sellers Association for the best alternative non-fiction book of the year. Jensen's book 20 Years of Censored News was translated into Greek for publication in Greece by Black List Books, Athens, 1998; was excerpted and translated into French for publication in MediasPouvoirs, Paris, 1998; and was a 1998/99 selection by the Quality Paperback Book Club.

Jensen is married and has four children and three grandchildren. He and his wife Sandra live in beautiful downtown Cotati in Northern California.