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Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). H…
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Born 6 January 1878 · Died 22 July 1967 · Q193608
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Composer and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas premiered his musical theater piece Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind based on the Sandburg poem from the collection Smoke and Steel, for three singers, chamber orchestr
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Sandburg was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
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To supplement the Illinois Zephyr on the Chicago–Quincy route
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The Chicago Public Library Foundation created the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, given annually to "an acclaimed author whose work has enhanced the public’s awareness of the written word
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Carl Sandburg Village was converted to condominium ownership
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The 100th anniversary of his birth, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp honoring Sandburg
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Named in honor of Sandburg
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Died 1967-07-22.
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“I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision …”
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
“One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.”
“I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.”
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Lyndon B. Johnson (1964).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording for Lincoln Portrait (1959).
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During the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, Sandburg delivered an address before a joint session of Congress following actor Fredric March’s reading of the Gettysburg Address
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For Best Performance – Documentary Or Spoken Word (Other Than Comedy) for his recording of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait with the New York Philharmonic
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Won Robert Frost Medal (1952).
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Along with Sandburg's own distinctive autograph
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1951).
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Settled at Connemara, a 246-acre (100 ha) estate in Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina, where he lived with his wife, daughters, and grandchildren and produced a substantial portion of his later writings
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for History (1940).
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Won the Pulitzer Prize for History for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, the four-volume sequel to The Prairie Years, and in 1951 received a second Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for Complete Poems
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“Cultural Interchanges between the Americas”
And he and his wife Hannah "were always singing these songs
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Wrote that Sandburg's book "is not history, is not even biography" because of its lack of original research and uncritical use of evidence, but Barton nevertheless thought it was "real literature and a delightful and imp
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Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Cornhuskers (1919).
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Sandburg was assigned by his editor at the Daily News to do a series of reports on the working classes and tensions among whites and African Americans
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Funded by a special grant from the Poetry Society of America, for Cornhuskers
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Due to disagreements with its opposition to U
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“s Intolerance (1916), but his first film work was when he signed on to work on the production of The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) in July 1960 for a year, receiving an”
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Carl Sandburg began his political involvement as an organizer for the Social Democratic Party of Wisconsin, affiliated with the Socialist Party of America, and served as secretary to Milwaukee's socialist mayor Emil Seidel from 1910 to 1912.
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Sandburg met Lilian Steichen (1883–1977), sister of photographer Edward Steichen, at the Milwaukee Social Democratic Party office
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Born 1878-01-06.
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