Carl Sandburg

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

Some works by Sandburg

• In Reckless Ecstasy (1904) (poetry)
• Chicago Poems (1916) (poetry)
• Cornhuskers (1918) (poetry)
• Smoke and Steel (1920) (poetry)
• Rootabaga Stories (1920) (children's stories)
• Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922) (poetry)
• More Rootabaga Stories (1923) (children's stories)
• Selected Poems (1926) (poetry)
• Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (1926) (biography)
• The American Songbag (1927) (folk songs)
• Good Morning, America (1928) (poetry)
• Steichen the Photographer (1929) (history)
• Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (1932) (biography)
• The People, Yes (1936) (poetry)
• Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939) (biography)
• The New American Songbag (1950) (folk songs)
• Complete Poems (1950) (poetry)
• Harvest Poems (1950) (poetry)
• Always the Young Strangers (1953) (autobiography)
• Family of Man (1955) (exhibition catalog) (introduction; images compiled by Edward Steichen)
• Honey and Salt (1963) (poetry)
• Breathing Tokens (poetry by Sandburg, edited by Margaret Sandburg) (1978) (poetry)
• Ever the Winds of Chance (1983) (autobiography) (started by Sandburg, completed by Margaret Sandburg and George Hendrick)