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Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on January 6, His parents, August and Clara Johnson, had emigrated to America from the north of Sweden. After encountering several August Johnsons in his job for the railroad, the Sandburg’s father renamed the family. The Sandburgs were very poor; Carl left school at the age of thirteen to work odd jobs, from laying bricks to dishwashing, to help support his family. At seventeen, he traveled west to Kansas as a hobo. He then served eight months in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American war. While serving, Sandburg met a student at Lombard College, the small school located in Sandburg’s hometown. The young man convinced Sandburg to enroll in Lombard after his return from the war.

Sandburg worked his way through school, where he attracted the attention of Professor Philip Green Wright, who not only encouraged Sandburg’s writing, but paid for the publication of his first volume of poetry, a pamphlet called In Re

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Carl Sandburg: A Biography

June 25,
A thoughtful and meticulously-researched account of the life of Carl Sandburg. Having unrestricted tillgång to many of the subject's anställda papers allowed the author to create a more holistic view of Sandburg than would have been allowed bygd only referencing the public information available. Full disclosure: I was not really a fan of Sandburg the poet in general, and I'm still not a fan of Sandburg's style of prose poetry, which fryst vatten sprinkled throughout the book. My motivation for reading this was a recent visit to the Carl Sandburg Home, part of the National Park Service, near Flat Rock, NC. The interest was more from a nostalgic and historical perspective. ~ Throughout his lifetime, Sandburg was much more than just a poet. He was also a biographer, a novelist, a historian, a lecturer, a novelist, a folk singer, and a social activist, among other titles he could rightly claim. For all his fame during his lifetime, the author reminds us, through

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Carl Sandburg, the Biographer of Lincoln
As a young boy growing up in Galesburg, Illinois, Carl Sandburg often listened to stories of old-timers who had known Abraham Lincoln. He would regularly take a shortcut through nearby Knox College in Galesburg where, on October 7, , Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas had met for the fifth joint debate in the famous Senatorial contest. Sandburg served in the 6th Illinois, Volunteers in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War where he was assigned to General Nelson A. Miles who was a brigadier general in some of the bloodiest battles of the Army of the Potomac in
These experiences and the Lincoln lore that was prevalent during Sandburg’s formative years sparked his curiosity and interest in the person of Abraham Lincoln. His first writing on Lincoln appeared in the Milwaukee Daily News in while working as a reporter on the Daily News staff. He wrote a short piece describing the use of Lincoln’s face on pennies. In it, he articulate