Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967), American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer & folklorist. He was natural around Galesburg, Illinois of Swedish parents and died within Flat Rock, North Carolina.

H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat." He was a successful journalist, poet, historian, biographer, and autobiographer. When you took a course of his career, Sandburg won 2 Pulitzer Prizes, one for his life history of Abraham Lincoln ("Abraham Lincoln: The War Years") & 1 for his book of poetry, "The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg".

Very much of his poetry, like "Chicago", focused on Chicago, Illinois, where he spent time as a newsman for the Chicago Daily News. His best known description of the city is when "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders."

In a period of the Spanish-American War, Sandburg enlisted in the 6th Illinois Infantry. Below the brief (2-week) career as a student at West Point with Douglas MacArthur, Sandburg chose to attend Lombard College. Sandburg left college forswearing the degree around 1902 and got married to Lillian Steichen, sister of the illustrious lensman, Edward Steichen, in 1908. Lillian (nicknamed "Paus'l" by her mother & "Paula" by Carl) & Carl got terzetto girl. From either 1912 to 1928, he lived in Chicago, nearby Evanston and Elmhurst. When you took this instance he began functiin in his series of life on Abraham Lincoln, which would eventually earn him his Pulitzer Prize in history (for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 1940). Sandburg lived for the brief time around Milwaukee prior to moving to Harbert, Michigan. &, inside 1945, a Sandburg personal moved from either a Midwest, in which it'500 spent virtually all of their inhabits, to the Connemara estate, within Flat Rock, Northward Carolina. Connemara wwhen ideal for the personal, as it gave Mr. Sandburg an entire mountain top to roam & plenty solitude for him to write. It too provided Mrs. Sandburg assibilate Xxx l& of pasture to raise and graze her prize-winning dairy farm goats.

He is besides loved one by generations of tykes for his Rootabaga Stories, a series of impulsive, periodically melancholy stories he originally created for his have girl. A Rootabaga Stories were born of Sandburg's want for "American fairy tales" to match U.s. childhood. He felt that a European stories involving royalty & knights were incompatible, so populated his stories by having skyscrapers, trains, corn fairies & a "Five Marrrrvelous Pretzels".

His personal of Twenty-two years inside 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. A Uncommon Book & Favorite Collections Library at a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign possesses a Carl Sandburg collection & archives. A bulk of a collection was purchased directly from either either the Carl Sandburg & his personal, using numbers of little collections with been donated by his personal & purchased from outside sources.

Some works by Sandburg
Inside Reckless Ecstasy (1904) (poetry) Chicago Verse form (1916) (poetry) Cornhuskers (1918) (poetry) Smoke & Steel (1920) (poetry) Rootabaga Stories (1920) (youngsters's stories) Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922) (poetry) Supplementary Rootabaga Stories (1923) (tykes's stories) Selected Poems (1926) (poetry) Abraham Lincoln: A Prairie Years (1926) (life) A U.s. Songbag (1927) (folksong) Practiced Morning, America (1928) (poetry) Steichen a Lensman (1929) (history) Mary Lincoln: Married woman & Widow woman (1932) (life story) A Humans, Yes (1936) (poetry) Abraham Lincoln: A War Years (1939) (life) A Up to date Western Songbag (1950) (folk ballad) Complete Poems (1950) (poetry) Harvest Verse form (1950) (poetry) Universally a Young Strangers (1953) (autobiography) Family of Man (1955) (exhibition catalog) (introduction; images compiled by Edward Steichen) Honey & Salt (1963) (poetry) Breathing Tokens (poetry by Sandburg, edited by Margaret Sandburg) (1978) (poetry) Ever a Winds of Risk (1983) (autobiography) (began by Sandburg, completed by Margaret Sandburg & George Hendrick)