Carl Sandburg
(1878–1967)

Carl August Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois, the son of Swedish immigrants. As a writer, he was unique in winning the Pulitzer Prize for both poetry and history. Sandburg often wrote about the rough-and-tumble everyday world. His first book of poems to be published was called In Reckless Ecstasy. It was followed in 1916 by the publication of Chicago Poems–containing "Fog," "Grass," and other highly impressionistic poems. By the time this book appeared, Sandburg had been a farm worker, a stagehand, a railroad worker, a soldier, and a cook, among other things. Later on in his career, beginning in 1941, he became a reporter in Chicago and wrote a weekly column syndicated by the Chicago Daily Times.

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