Along with the entire work Chicago Poems, posted on this site (under "bibliography"), you'll find an amazing number of facts about the author here. Read about his hometown (or a link to the Galesburg, Illinois Website), access a large list of biographical sources, find answers to many frequently asked questions, and review a humorous comment on Sandburg's criticism/evaluation.

The Academy of American Poets: Carl Sandburg
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=29

Click here to view an excellent photograph with accompanying biography of the famous author. You may also choose to read online versions of four of Sandburg's poems: "Chicago," "Fog," "Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio," and "I am the People, the Mob." Finally, choose to browse a few other links to sites about the writer.

The Carl Sandburg Historic Site, Galesburg, Illinois
http://www.misslink.net/sandburg/

Lovers of the famous poet will find a mecca here, enabling them to read an excellent biography, and find out about the Sandburg Days Festival held every April. You can browse the gift shop to purchase some Sandburg-related items to help promote the knowledge and popularity of the world-renown poet.

Selected Poetry of Carl Sandburg
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/authors/sandburg.html

This site, from "Representative Poetry Online," provides the reader with online versions of 15 of Sandburg's brilliant poems, from "Bronzes," to "They Will Say." Also featured at this site are e-text versions of many of the most famous critical pieces on the art of poetry. A great resource for budding Sandburg scholars.

BIOGRAPHY
Carl Sandburg (b. 1878) was born in Galesburg, Illinois to Swedish immigrant parents. After leaving school at the age of 13, he worked as an itinerant laborer and served in the Spanish-American War before becoming a journalist and advertising copywriter. In 1904 he published his first book of poems, Reckless Ecstasy. In 1916, with the publication of Chicago Poems, he was firmly established as a major poet of the American Midwest. Though labeled "artless" by some of his contemporaries (Robert Frost called him a fraud), he was widely read and admired during his lifetime. His Complete Poems (1950) won the Pulitzer prize. The governor of Illinois proclaimed his 75th birthday "Carl Sandburg Day," he was decorated by the King of Sweden, and in 1964, he received the Presidential Medal of Honor from Lyndon B. Johnson. In addition to his poetry, he is known for his four-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.