Carl+Sandburg



__**Personal Information**__
 * Born January 6, 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois
 * Parents were Swedish (August and Clara Sandburg)
 * Lived in the midwest of Chicago
 * He quit school after graduauting from the eight grade in 1891 and became a delivery boy for about a decade
 * He volunteered for service, and at the age of twenty was ordered to go to Puerto Rico
 * Attended Lombard College and joined the Poor Writers Club
 * Sandburg died at his North Carolina home July 22, 1967


 * __Professional Information__**
 * In 1914 Sandburg appeared national for the first time in //Poetry Magazine//
 * In 1916 his first book //Chicago Poems// was publishes
 * Sandburg published another volume of poems, //Cornhuskers,// in 1918
 * He wrote a childrens fantasy book called //Rootabaga Stories// in1922
 * Published a two volume novel about Abraham Lincoln in 1926 called the //The Prairie Years// and //The War Years//
 * He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940
 * Wrote a novel called //Remembrance Rock//
 * Sandburg's //Complete Poems// won him a second Pulitzer Prize in 1951