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Carl Sandburg


 

Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878July 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)