Carl Sandburg

       Born on January 6, 1878, Carl August Sandburg was a three time Pulitzer Prize winner in 1919, 1940 and 1951. Nicknamed "Charles" or "Charlie" during elementary years, Sandburg was born to a man and woman both of Swedish ancestry, Clara Mathilda and August Sandburg. His birthplace was in a three-room cottage located at 313 East Third Street in Galesburg, Illinois. At thirteens years young Sandburg dropped school and began driving a milk wagon. Once reaching the age of fourteen Sandburg started working as a porter at the Union Hotel barbershop in Galesburg until he was about seventeen or eighteen. Proceeding that job he worked on the milk route for another eighteen months. He then became a bricklayer and a farm laborer on the wheat plains of Kansas. The start of his writing career was being a journalist for Chicago Dailey News. At a later date he wrote  poetry, history, biographies, novels, children's literature, and film reviews. Sandburg also had a collection of books of ballards and folklore, in which he would edit.
        In later years, Sandburg met Lilian Steichen at the Social Democratic Party office in 1907. The following year they were united in marriage. Lilian's brother was the photographer Edward Steichen. Sandburg raised three daughters with his wife, whom he called Paula. Sandburg composed three children's books in Elmhurst, Rootabaga Stories, in 1922, followed by Rootabaga Pigeons (1923), and Potato Face (1930). Sandburg also wrote a literally composition named Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, a two-volume biography in 1926, The American Songbag (1927), and a book containing poems called Good Morning, America (1928). In 1919 Sandburg became victorious by recieveing his first Pulitzer Prize "made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society" for his collection Corn Huskers. 1940 was the year he won his second Pulitzer Prize of History for The War Years, the second volume of his Abraham Lincoln, and a second Poetry Pulitzer in 1951 for Complete Poems. 
         On February 12, 1959, in commemorations of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Congress attended a joint session to hear actor Fredric March preform a dramatic reading of the Gettysburg Address, followed by an address by Sandburg. As of the year 2013, Sandburg is the only famous poet to have ever been invited and to have attended a joint sessions out on by Congress.
          On July 22, 1967 Carl "Charlie" August Sandburg died of natural causes in his North Carolina home. His ashes were returned by request of Sandurg to his birthplace. His finally resting place is under the Rememberance Rock, a largely colored granite boulder, in the Sandburg Park behind his birth house. 10 years following his death, his wife's remains were placed upon side of Carl Sandburg's.

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