Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg was born in 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois, to Swedish parents who could barely write. He left school at thirteen, delivered milk, laid bricks, harvested wheat in Kansas, roamed the West as a vagabond and served in Puerto Rico during the war of 1898 before entering college, which he left without a degree. A journalist in Chicago, he collected the country's folk songs and sang them to his own guitar accompaniment. A three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, twice for his verse and once for a biography of Lincoln, he died in North Carolina in 1967.

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• PoetryChicago PoemsCarl Sandburg · 1916LiteraturePublic domain