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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
wasolder, 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 the1920'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
