Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg was born Carl August Sandburg. His parents were Swedish immigrants, and his family was so poor that when he finished eighth grade he went to work full time. Sandburg spent many years traveling around the American West working at a wide variety of jobs, including bootblack, harvester, hotel dishwasher, and newspaper reporter. After fighting in the Spanish-American War, he went to Lombard College in his hometown. Although he did very well, he did not take his final exams and returned to being a hobo for several more years. At age 30, he settled down and put his years of traveling and learning American folksongs and stories to good use in this writing. One of America’s best-loved poets, Sandburg was also a popular folklorist and a biographer of Lincoln. He is also famous for his book, ”Rootabaga Stories”, written for his daughters. His Abraham Lincoln biography has come to be considered an American epic. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. Sandburg also served as Illinois’ second Poet Laureate from 1962 until his death in 1967.
“””Other Awards and Honors”””r | ””’Cornhuskers””’ r | *Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, 2011 | *Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1919 r | r
A patriot’s handbook : | Abe Lincoln grows up | Abraham Lincoln; | Always the young strangers / | Billy Sunday and other poems / | Breathing tokens : | Carl Sandburg at the movies : | Chicago poems | Cornhuskers | Early moon ; | Ever the winds of chance / | Harvest poems, 1910-1960 / | Honey and salt / | INCIDENTALS. | Mary Lincoln, wife and widow / | More Carl Sandburg reads. | More Rootabaga stories / | Poems for children : | Poetry for Young People | Prairie-town boy / | Remembrance Rock / | Rootabaga pigeons / | Rootabaga stories / | Rootabaga stories and Rootabaga pigeons | Sandburg range. | Selected poems | Slabs of the sunburnt West | Smoke and steel / | Storm over the land : | The American songbag / | The Chicago race riots, July, 1919. | The Family of man : | The Huckabuck family and how they raised popcorn in Nebraska and quit and came back / | The Sandburg Treasury : | The complete poems of Carl Sandburg / | The people, yes. | The wedding procession of the rag doll and the broom handle and who was in it