![]() ![]() ![]() Sandburg reported on circumstances in industrial Chicago such as a lack of child labor laws, unsafe working conditions, and racial strife, including the Chicago race riots of 1919. He landed a position as a journalist, working as a reporter for the Chicago Day Book from 1912-1917 and also for the Chicago Daily News. He left school at age 13 and worked a variety of jobs, served in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War, and thereafter enrolled in Lombard College where he was encouraged to pursue writing. Considered among the most celebrated writers, poets, lecturers, and musicians of the 20th century, Sandburg received the Pulitzer Prize in two separate fields: one in history for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, published in 1939, and later for his book Complete Poems, published in 1950.īorn on January 6, 1878, in Galesburg, Illinois, Sandburg was the firstborn son of hardworking Swedish immigrants. Located in Flat Rock, North Carolina, Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site is the first national park unit honoring the life and works of an American poet. ![]() “I was born on the prairie, and the milks of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of its women, gave me song and a slogan.” (Carl Sandburg, “Prairie,” July 1918) NPS / Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site Archives. Sandburg grew up in the Elim Lutheran Church in Galesburg, Illinois. A young Charlie (Carl) Sandburg poses at his Confirmation photo. ![]()
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