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Carl Sandburg was virtually unknown to the literary world when, in 1914, a group of his poems appeared in the nationally circulated Poetry magazine. Two years later his book Chicago Poems was published, and the thirty-eight-year-old author found himself on the brink of a career that would bring him international acclaim.
Carl Sandburg worked from the time he was a young boy. He quit school following his graduation from eighth grade in 1891 and spent a decade working a variety of jobs. He delivered milk, harvested ice, laid bricks, threshed wheat in Kansas, and shined shoes in Galesburg's Union Hotel before traveling as a hobo in 1897.
Sandburg's experiences working and traveling greatly influenced his writing and political views.
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Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on January 6, 1878. 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 Reckless Ecstasy (Asgard Press, 1904). While Sandburg attended Lombard for four years, he never
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American writer and editor Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois in 1878, and went on to win no less than two Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry. A colorful early life saw him leave school at the age of 13 to work odd jobs – delivering milk, harvesting ice, and even shining shoes. It was an upbringing grounded in the common man that was to greatly influence his poetry in future years.
As a 17 year old he left home, traveled to Kansas and eventually served in the Spanish-American Civil War. It was there that he was convinced to enroll in Lombard College by a student, which he did when he finally returned to the US. At Lombard he came under the wing of Professor Philip Green Write and was encouraged to write.
His first book of poetry, Reckless Ecstasy, was published in 1904 with some financial help from Green and, though he never received a diploma from Lombard, Sandburg was firmly set on the road to literary success.
After finishing college, he moved to Milwaukee to work as a newspaper reporter and advertising writer. He married Lillian Steichan and moved to Chicago
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