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Carl Sandburg

Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920).[2] He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life".[3] When he died in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."[4]

This article is about the writer. For the passenger train service, see Carl Sandburg (train).

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandberg[1]
(1878-01-06)January 6, 1878
Galesburg, Illinois, U.S.

July 22, 1967(1967-07-22) (aged 89)
Flat Rock, North Carolina, U.S.

Journalist, author

Lombard College (non-graduate)

1898

Private

6th Illinois Infantry

(m. 1908)

3

Edward Steichen (brother-in-law)
George Crile Jr. (son-in-law)
Mary Calderone (niece)

Legacy[edit]

Commemoration[edit]

Carl Sandburg's boyhood home in Galesburg is now operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency as the Carl Sandburg State Historic Site. The site contains the cottage Sandburg was born in, a modern visitor's center, and small garden with a large stone called Remembrance Rock, under which his and his wife's ashes are buried.[28] Sandburg's home of 22 years in Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina, is preserved by the National Park Service as the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. Carl Sandburg College is located in Sandburg's birthplace of Galesburg, Illinois. During the Spanish-American War, Sandburg was stationed at Camp Alger in Fairfax County, Virginia and so the county has both a Sandburg Road, near the spot where the camp was located, and a Carl Sandburg Middle School.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Niven, Penelope. Carl Sandburg: A Biography. New York: Scribner's, 1991.

Sandburg, Carl. The Letters of Carl Sandburg. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.

Sandburg, Helga. A Great and Glorious Romance: The Story of Carl Sandburg and Lilian Steichen. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

in Galesburg, IL (at sandburg.org)

Carl Sandburg's birthplace

(at uncharted101.com)

Carl Sandburg Birthplace, Galesburg, IL

from the National Park Service

Carl Sandburg Home, North Carolina

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Carl Sandburg

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Carl Sandburg

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Carl Sandburg

PBS American Masters video

The Day Carl Sandburg Died

Archived 2019-10-18 at the Wayback Machine, a Nebraska Educational Telecommunications film, University of Nebraska (video, 1 hour)

Prayers for the People: Carl Sandburg's Poetry and Songs

from the University of Illinois

Carl Sandburg databases

from the FBI website

Carl Sandburg

Previously unknown Sandburg poem focuses on power of the gun

Heitman, Danny (March–April 2013). . Humanities. 34 (2). National Endowment For The Humanities. Retrieved 6 January 2015.

"A Workingman's Poet"

at Library of Congress, with 276 library catalog records

Carl Sandburg

at LC Authorities, with 20 records

Helga Sandburg

Carl Sandburg Home NHS images on Open Parks Network

Without The Cain and The Derby, a poem by Carl Sandburg: Vanity Fair, May, 1922

at the Internet Broadway Database

Carl Sandburg

at Playbill Vault

Carl Sandburg