Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)

Author of Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg

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About the Author

The son of Swedish immigrants, Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois. At age 13 he left school to roam the Midwest; he remained on the road for six years, working as a day laborer. Sandburg served in the Spanish-American War and then, from 1898 to 1902, attended Lombard College in Galesburg. show more After college, he went to Milwaukee, where he worked as a journalist; he also married Lillian Steichen there in 1908. During World War I, he served as a foreign correspondent in Stockholm; after the war he returned to Chicago and continued to write about America, especially the common people. Sandburg's first poems to gain wide recognition appeared in Poetry magazine in 1914. Two years later he published his Chicago Poems (1916), and Cornhuskers appeared in 1918. Meanwhile, Sandburg set out to become an authority on Abraham Lincoln (see Vol. 3). His exhaustive biography of the president, which took many years to complete, appeared as Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (2 vols., 1926) and Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (4 vols., 1939), which won a Pulitzer Prize. Sandburg's poetry is untraditional in form. Drawing on Whitman as well as the imagists, its rhymeless and unmetered cadences reflect Midwestern speech, and its diction ranges from strong rhetoric to easygoing slang. Although he often wrote about the uncouth, the muscular, and the primitive, there was a pity and loving kindness that was a primary motive for his poetry. At Sandburg's death, Mark Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, and President Lyndon Johnson delivered eulogies. In his tribute, President Johnson said that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America. . . . He gave us the truest and most enduring vision of our own greatness." The N.Y. Times described Sandburg as "poet, newspaper man, historian, wandering minstrel, collector of folk songs, spinner of tales for children, [whose] place in American letters is not easily categorized. But it is a niche that he has made uniquely his own." Sandburg was the labor laureate of the United States. Sandburg received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1951 for his Complete Poems (1950). Among his many other awards were the gold medal for history and biography (1952) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the Poetry Society of America's gold medal (1953) for distinguished achievement; and the Boston Arts Festival Award (1955) in recognition of "continuous meritorious contribution to the art of American poetry." In 1959 he traveled under the auspices of the Department of State to the U.S. Trade Fair in Moscow, and to Stockholm, Paris, and London. In 1960 he received a citation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as a great living American for the "significant and lasting contribution which he has made to American literature." (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln : The War Years

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Rootabaga Stories

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Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg (1995) 961 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years [1-volume abridged edition] (1939) 794 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years {set of three volumes} (1954) 716 copies

Chicago Poems (1916) 584 copies

Abe Lincoln Grows Up (1926) 579 copies

The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1950) 453 copies

Rootabaga Stories (1922) 430 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (4 vol. set) (1939) 427 copies

Harvest Poems: 1910-1960 (1960) 346 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (2 vol. set) (1926) 321 copies

Honey and Salt (1953) 294 copies

Lincoln's Devotional (1957) 254 copies

Storm Over the Land (1942) 202 copies

The American Songbag (1927) 196 copies

Rootabaga Stories: Part One (1973) 191 copies

Selected Poems (2001) 190 copies

Selected Poems (1996) 181 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years (six-volume set) (1641) 165 copies

Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg (1777) 157 copies

Remembrance Rock (1948) 139 copies

The Huckabuck Family: And How They Raised Popcorn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back (1999) 138 copies

Rootabaga Stories: Part Two (1974) 136 copies

The People, Yes (1936) 132 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (2 of 4) (1925) 131 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (4 of 4) (1937) 125 copies

Always the Young Strangers (1636) 124 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (3 of 4) (1925) 121 copies

Abraham Lincoln (1926) 114 copies

More Rootabaga Stories (1923) 113 copies

Wind Song (1960) 112 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1 of 4) (1926) 108 copies

Prairie-Town Boy (1955) 99 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (1 of 2) (1925) 95 copies

Rainbows Are Made: Poems by Carl Sandburg (1982) 91 copies

Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems (2006) 83 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years 1861-1864: The Prairie Years and the War Years (Volume 2 of 3) (1954) 77 copies

The American Mercury Reader (1943) — Contributor — 76 copies

The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It (1967) 73 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (2 of 2) (1690) 72 copies

The Sandburg Treasury: Prose and Poetry for Young People (1970) 65 copies

Cornhuskers (1918) 64 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years 1809-1861 [The Prairie Years and the War Years] (1939) 64 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years 1864-1865: The Prairie Years and the War Years (Volume 3 of 3) (1950) 63 copies

Abraham Lincoln: The Illustrated Edition: The Prairie Years and The War Years (1970) 62 copies

Early Moon (1930) 59 copies

Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (1995) 56 copies

Billy Sunday And Other Poems (1993) 55 copies

Grassroots (1998) 55 copies

Poems for Children Nowhere Near Old Enough to Vote (1999) 50 copies

The Sandburg range (1925) 48 copies

Poems of the Midwest (1946) 47 copies

Lincoln collector; the story of Oliver R. Barrett's great private collection (1949) 39 copies

Poetry for Kids: Carl Sandburg (2017) 36 copies

Abraham Lincoln. The War Years 1861-1865 (1939) 33 copies

The Letters of Carl Sandburg (1968) 32 copies

The Chicago race riots, July, 1919 (1969) 31 copies

Arithmetic (1993) 29 copies

Lincoln's Daily Devotional (2015) 28 copies

Breathing Tokens (1978) — Author — 28 copies

Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon (2008) 20 copies

Steichen the photographer (1929) 19 copies

Rootabaga Pigeons (1923) 18 copies

Poems for the People (1999) 18 copies

The Movies Are : Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928 (2000) 18 copies

Smoke and Steel (1920) 16 copies

Good Morning America (1928) 15 copies

Reader's Digest World's Greatest Biographies: Abraham Lincoln | Winston Churchill | Thomas Edison (2001) 15 copies

Abraham Lincoln : The Prairie Years & the War Years (Library of the Presidents) 14 copies

The Fiery Trial (1959) 13 copies

The Poet and Dream Girl: The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen and Carl Sandburg (1987) 13 copies

A Lincoln preface (1953) 13 copies

Home Front Memo (1943) 13 copies

Not Every Day an Aurora Borealis for Your Birthday: A Love Poem by Carl Sandburg (1997) 13 copies

From Daybreak to Good Night: Poems for Children (2001) 13 copies

Ever the Winds of Chance (1983) 12 copies

Smoke and Steel, Slabs Of The Sunburnt West, Good Morning America (1941) 11 copies

Rootabaga Stories Omnibus Volume Including Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (1951) 10 copies

Fables, Foibles, and Foobles (1988) 10 copies

Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922) 8 copies

Himlavalv av morgondagar : ett dikturval 8 copies

Family Treasury of Great Biographies Volume 12 (1970) 8 copies

Stories from the Rootabaga Country (1958) 8 copies

Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg Abridged February 1929 (Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years by Carl… (1929) 7 copies

Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln 7 copies

Rootabaga Country (1929) 7 copies

Carl Sandburg on Abraham Lincoln; speech before the Congress of the United States, February the eighteenth [i. e.… 7 copies

The Gettysburg Address The Second Inaugural 6 copies

Potato Face (1930) 5 copies

Reader's Digest Illustrated Edition Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years and the War Years 5 copies

Historias del país de Rutabaga (1922) 5 copies

Carl Sandburg 4 copies

Runoja 4 copies

Rootabaga Stories Part One and Part Two--two Volume Set (1987) 4 copies

Sandburg Out Loud (2006) 4 copies

Carl Sandberg's Abraham Lincoln 3 copies

Theme in Yellow (Petite Poems): A Classic Ode to Autumn 3 copies

An Address by Carl Sandburg: At the Ceremony Opening the Centennial Exhibition "The American Civil War" in the Coolidge… (1962) 2 copies

Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It (1967) 2 copies

Abraham Lincoln;: The prairie years and the war years by Sandburg, Carl (1970) Hardcover (1709) 2 copies

The First Book Edition of The Gettysburg Address 2 copies

Carl Sandburg`s Abraham Lincoln : Volume 1 - The Prairie Years (1960) 2 copies

Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years and the War Years Vol. 3 (1965) 2 copies

Poemas de Chicago (2003) 2 copies

Lincoln, The Prairie Years and the war Years 2 copies

Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: Three Volume Set The Prairie Years and the War Years 2 copies

“Chicago” 2 copies

Carl Sandburg, the people's pugilist : writings from Charles H. Kerr's journal The international socialist review, 1912… (2009) 2 copies

Carl Sandburg ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Prairie and War Years 3 Vol Box Set Dell 1968 (1968) 2 copies

Rare Carl SANDBURG / Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years and the War Years -- 1st 1954 2 copies

Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years & the War Years 2 copies

Abraham Lincoln The Sangamon Edition Volume Six 6 The War Years - IV (1939) 2 copies

Chicago Public Library Fiftieth Anniversary (1873-1923) 2 copies

Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln 3 Volume Set 2 copies

Pohádky z bramborových řádků 2 copies

Dikter i urval 2 copies

Abraham Lincoln : demokrat, människovän 2 copies

Abraham Lincoln - the War Years - Volume Four (1939) 2 copies

Carl Sandburg reading Fog and other poems 2 copies

Henry Horner, Governor of Illinois: a Tribute, 1878-1940 (1941) 2 copies

Carl Sandburg Reads: A Poetry Collection (2001) 2 copies

Civil War Centennial Address 2 copies

Bronze Wood 2 copies

Carl Sandberg 1 copy

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Franklin Library (1978) 1 copy

RARE 1926 SELECTED POEMS OF CARL SANDBURG EDITED BY REBECCA WEST CHICAGO POEMS 1 copy

Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg 1926 - Edited by Rebecca West - Twelfth Printing 1 copy

The War Years- 1861-1864 1 copy

1963 FIRST EDITION CARL SANDBURG POETRY HONEY AND SALT GIFT IDEA USA 1 copy

good morning, america 1 copy

Honey and Salt 1 copy

Songs of America : collected folk songs 1 copy

The Story of Blixie Bimbar and the Power of the Gold Buckskin Whincher [short story] 1 copy

“They All Want to Play Hamlet” 1 copy

Rare Carl Sandburg ROOTABAGA STORIES 1951 Harcourt, Brace & World Later Printing 1 copy

Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected by Carl Sandburg (2004) — Composer — 1 copy

SANDBERG READS SANDBERG 1 copy

Elm Buds 1 copy

The Chicago Race Riots and Chicago Commission Report: Illustrated 100th Anniversary Edition (2020) 1 copy

Abrahan Lincoln The Prairle Years 1 copy

Abrham Lincoln: The War Years, Vol 1 1 copy

Abraham Lincoln The War Years Volume Two 1 copy

Early Moon 1 copy

Prairie Lawyer (in Law in Action) 1 copy

Address 1 copy

Chicago Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Carl Sandburg (1-Aug-1994) Paperback 1 copy

Rootabaga Stories (Illustrated Edition): Crazy Funny Tales for Little Children 1 copy

Abraham Lincoln, The War Years Volume 3 1 copy

The Pamphlet Poets: Carl Sandburg 1 copy

Abraham Lincoln, The War Years (1864-1865), Vol. III 1 copy

The Diary of a Public Man: Unpublished Passages from the Secret History of the American Civil War and Abraham… (1946) — Foreword — 1 copy

Abraham Lincoln, The Prairies Years, Vol. 1 1 copy

The War Years- 1864-1865 1 copy

RARE 1923 1ST EDITION CARL SANDBURG CHILDREN'S STORIES ROOTABAGA ILLUSTRATED 1 copy

Wild Song 1 copy

Abraham Lincoln (Sagamon Edition Vols 4-6) (1939) 1 copy

Smoke and Steel and Slabs of the Sunburnt West 1 copy

ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE SAGAMON EDITION (In 6 volumes) (1943) 1 copy

A Lincoln and Whitman miscellany, (1938) 1 copy

Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories - As Told By Carl Sandburg 1 copy

Selected Poems (1926) 1 copy

Works of Carl Sandburg 1 copy

Address of Carl Sandburg Before a Joint Session of Congress, February 11, 1959 (1959) 1 copy

The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians of North America (2014) 1 copy

Carl Sandburg: The Pamphlet Poets 1 copy

Válogatott versek 1 copy

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, in 4 volumes; we have 3 and 4 only (1939) 1 copy

Incidentals (2010) 1 copy

Vida Inovieta 1 copy

Timeless Stories: Collected Readings (Leveled Reader 4C) (1895) 1 copy

Democracy In America Vol. 2 1 copy

Versuri 1 copy

Always the Young Strangers, vol. 1 1 copy

An Address Of Carl Sandburg 1 copy

A collection of poems. 1 copy

Snatch of Sliphorn Jazz 1 copy

Always the Young Strangers, vol. 2 1 copy

Abraham Lincoln : address by Carl Sandburg before the United States Congress (Sesquicentennial Anniversary 1909-1959) 1 copy

From The People, Yes (Interpreting Literature - 5th Edition) 1 copy

Carl Sandburg: Collected Poems 1 copy

The Poetry Of Carl Sandburg 1 copy

Cool Tombs [poem] 1 copy

How the Animals Lost Their Tails (and Got Them Back Again) (2014) 1 copy

The family of man: The greatest photographic exhibition of all time 1 copy

Abraham Lincoln: (1984) 1 copy

THE SANDBURG RANGE [First Edition] 1st (1957) 1 copy

Fables, Foibles, and Foobles by Carl Sandburg (1988-05-01) Paperback (1600) 1 copy

Rootabaga stories.(PART TWO) 1 copy

Honey And Salt A Volume Of Poems (1963) 1 copy

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Easton Press (1984) 1 copy

Carl Sandburg Reading a Lincoln Album (Swc 2015) (1986) 1 copy

Carl Sandburg 1 copy

Addresses at the dedication of the Henry Horner Memorial Monument : October 27, 1948 1 copy

The Living Words of Abraham Lincoln: Selected Writings of a Great President With a Foreword By Carl Sandburg [Selected… (1967) 1 copy

Sandburg Poetry 1 copy

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, preview booklet 1 copy

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE WAR YEARS, VOLS. 1 - 3 Easton Press (1995) 1 copy

Carl Sandburg Reads the Poems of Carl Sandburg 1 copy

Carl Sandburg Complete Poems - The Franklin Library - David Frampton Illustrations (1985) 1 copy

Illustrated Edition Abraham Lincoln - The Prarie Years and the War Years (1970) 1 copy

Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg. Armed Services Edition (1943) 1 copy

Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years and The War Years Vol 2 of 3 1 copy

Remembrance Rock Volume I and II (1948) 1 copy

Antologia poetica 1 copy

Standard Diary and Daily Reminder 1913, Containing Shorthand Notes taken by Writer in a Conversation with Captain… 1 copy

Abraham Lincoln The War Years & the Prairie Years Readers Digest Illustrated Edition (1923) 1 copy

Antología de Carl Sandburg (edición bilingüe)[bilingual Carl Sanburg´s antology) (Los poetas de la banda eriza)… (2010) 1 copy

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Legal name: Sandburg, Carl August
Other names: SANDBURG, Carl August
SANDBURG, Carl
Birthdate: 1878-01-06
Date of death: 1967-07-22
Burial location: Remembrance Rock, Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Place of death: Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
Cause of death: natural causes
Places of residence: Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Harbert, Michigan, USA
Evanston, Illinois, USA (show all 8)
Elmhurst, Illinois, USA
Connemara, Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
Education: Lombard College
Occupations: poet
novelist
biographer
editor
reporter
columnist (show all 22)
lecturer
milk-delivery boy
barber shop porter
fireman
truck operator
house painter
bricklayer
farm laborer
hotel servant
coal-heaver
children's book author
movie reviewer
editorial writer
historian
folklorist
folk singer
Relationships: Steichen, Edward (brother-in-law)
Sandburg, Helga (daughter)
Steichen, Paula (granddaughter)
Organizations: American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1933])
US Army (6th Illinois Infantry ∙ Spanish American War)
Social Democratic Party
Cliff Dwellers
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Times Syndicate (show all 7)
Chicago Daily Times
Awards and honors: Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2011)
Levinson Prize
Friend of American Writers award
Phi Beta Kappa
Theodore Roosevelt distinguished service medal (show all 20)
American Academy of Arts and Letters gold medal for history
Poetry Society of America gold medal
Taminent Institution award
Commander Order of the North Star, Sweden
New York Civil War Round Table silver medal
University of Louisville award of merit
Albert Einstein award, Yeshiva College
Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Cup
International Poet's Award
Ph.D., Uppsala University, 1948
LL.D., Rollins College, 1941
LL.D., Augustana College, 1948
LL.D., University of Illinois, 1953
United States Postal Service stamp

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Abraham Lincoln; the War Years; In 4 Vols by Carl Sandburg

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Abraham Lincoln, the Prairie Years and the War… by Carl Sandburg

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Rootabaga Stories Part One by Carl Sandburg

Presents Sandburg's fanciful, humorous tales peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others.

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Rootabaga Stories Part Two by Carl Sandburg

Presents Sandburg's fanciful, humorous tales peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others. This second volume of unique fairy tales includes stories originally published in 1923. Each reflects the warmth of a midwestern childhood, a zest for life, and a love of the American language that has never been equaled.

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