Carl Sandburg
/ˌkɑːl ˈsændbɜːɡ/
/ˌkɑːrl ˈsændbɜːrɡ/
- (1878-1967) a US poet, writer and singer of folk songs. He first worked on farms, and his poems are about ordinary life. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, for Complete Poems (1951) and for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939), part of his long biography of Lincoln.
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