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A Biography On Carl Sandburg

A Biography on Carl Sandburg


Carl Sandburg was a great man. His life was one of fame, once he began
writing. He inspired many people. He also became an American Marvel. His works
still remain read even today, 30 years after his death.

His life was an interesting one. His parents immigrated to the US from
Sweden. His parents moved to Galesburg, Illinois. He attended public schools.
At the age of thirteen, he had to give up public school and go to work to help
earn money for his family. First, he drove a milk truck. Next he worked in a
barber shop Then he went on to change sets in theater, operated a brick kiln,
and worked as a carpenter, house painter and dishwasher. When he was older, he
joined the fight against the Spanish in the Spanish-American War. He spent a
long eight months in Puerto Rico. After the war, he went to Lombard College.
Afterwards , he went on to work as an organizer for the Social-Democratic Party
in Wisconsin, during 1907 through 1908. That was also the year he got married.
He also wrote for the Leader, a newspaper in Milwaukee. He then went on to the
city of Chicago. There, he wrote for the two newspapers, the Daily News and the
Daybook. He liked writing for newspapers some, but his true passion was poetry.
Some of his early poems were published in the Chicago newspapers he worked for.


With his love for poetry grew, the demand for his poetry also grew. In
the year 1916, at the age of thirty eight, he published the book, Chicago poems.
Two years later, at the age of forty, he published Cornhuskers. The public
loved these two marvelous books. Other poets accepted them as wonderful. In the
1920's he became so popular, that he quit journalism to write full-time as a
career. He also moved away from the black ink to write songs. Some were
accepted into songbooks, such as The Songbag, and The New American Songbag.

Sandburg was then transformed into an American Marvel. he was very
interested in the Ideas of Democracy and Liberty. He...