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=Carl August Sandburg by Stephanie Lynne Copper= Carl Sandburg was one of America's most famous children's poets. He was born on January 6, 1878, in Galesburg, Illinois. He died on July 22, 1967, in Flat

Rock, North Carolina. He had a few nicknames including, Charlie and Sandy. He was of Swedish descent.

Carl Sandburg quit school in the eighth grade in order to pursue some "odd job." His jobs included milk delivery boy, fireman, truck driver, house painter,

film salesman, reporter, secretary, editor, political organizer, newspaper columnist, and radio broadcaster. He volunteered for the Spanish-American war.

After that, he went back to school at Lombard College, but he did not graduate. He tried to throw away his whole life at one point and lived off of the streets,

Later, he went back to Illinois. Sandburg got his writing style ideas from William Jennings Bryan and Jack London. All of the projects he took on were very

large. His daughter had mental retardation. He was one of seven children. The reason Sandburg left school at the age of thirteen was because he needed to

help out his family financially. He spent three and a half months traveling through Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado on the railroad.

Carl Sandburg did not start out his career very famously. It was not until Harriet Monroe, editor of the progressive literary periodical Poetry: A Magazine of

Free Verse, published six of Sandburg's poems in 1914. Sandburg started some literary friendships with Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell,

and Sherwood Anderson. He also started to get attention from Henry Holt and Company. "Chicago," was one of Sandburg's most famous and celebrated

poems. The poems "Chicago" and "Skyscraper, " proclaimed that buildings have souls. Sandburg loved family and nature very much. He wrote about World

War I, which portrayed images of soldiers that died during that time.

Sandburg won many awards including the Pulitzer Prize. Sandburg loved writing childrens poems. His poems had a lot of meaning behind them about

life. He wrote about things that got the reader's attention. He was a protagonist. He always had a very good outlook on life. He was full of energy. He was a

very easy man to get along with. He encouraged many "difficult" poets. Sandburg wrote many poems in his lifetime. He had a lot of them published and

they are still being read today. He had a very adventurous life. He was married and had children. His wife's name was Lillian Steichen. His children's names

were Margaret, Janet, and Helga. Carl Sandburg had a very large imagination, he loved dreaming up things and looking at real life situations to help him

write his works. He also had many poetic influences including Sara Teasdale, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Witter Bynner, and Edgar Lee

Masters. He wrote a biography on Abraham Lincoln. which got incredible reviews. He allowed his subjects to speak for themselves, which was very good

on his part, because it made his readers understand him better as a person, not just as a writer.

__Annotated Bibliography__ Unger, Leonard. "Carl Sandburg."__American Writers III__. 1972. This encyclopedia helped me a lot, it gave me most of the information I needed to finish this. It was laid out in columns and split into various subjects about the author.

"Sandburg, Carl (August)(1878-1967)." DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit:Gale, 2003. Student Resource Center-Gold. Gale. Fuquay Varina High School/WCPS/.22. May.2008. In this article on the computer, it showed me many facts about his life, personally. It was a biographical essay about Carl Sandburg. It gave me the information about his influences and about his career. He held many different jobs and at one point, he almost threw away his whole life because he did not know what to do anymore.

Crowder, Richard. "Carl Sandburg." 1964. This book was a biography on Carl Sandburg. It gave me a lot of information about all of the various jobs he had and what he did to become a writer. Carl Sandburg did a lot of writing during his time and enjoyed it very much.

Young, Robyn V. "Poetry Criticism."1991. This was a book written about Car Sandburg, examining all of Carl Sandburg's works. Sandburg loved his family and nature, he loved using his imagination and real life situations to write all of his poetry. He worked hard thinking of everything he could write about. He had many influences to writing his poetry. His family meant the world to him and he probably would have been lost without them in his life.