The Carl Sandburg Page

( 1878-1967 )

Major Works
In Reckless Ecstasy ( 1904 ).
Chicago Poems ( 1916 ).
Cornhuskers ( 1918 ).
The Chicago Race Riots ( 1919 ).
Smoke and Steel ( 1920 ).
Slabs of the Sunburnt West ( 1922 ).
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years ( 1926 ). First two volumes of a life of Lincoln.
The American Songbag ( 1927 ). Collection of American folksongs.
Good Morning, America ( 1928 ).
Steichen the Photographer ( 1929 ). Biography of his father-in-law.
Early Moon ( 1930 ).
Mary Lincoln, Wife and Widow ( 1932 ). With Paul M. Angle ).
The People, Yes ( 1936 ).
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years ( 1939 ). The remaining four volumes of his Lincoln biography.
Remembrance Rock ( 1948 ). A novel.
The New American Songbag ( 1950 ).
Always the Young Strangers ( 1952 ). Autobiographical.
Abraham Lincoln ( 1954 ). A one-volume abridged Lincoln.

Children's Books
Rootabaga Stories ( 1922 ).
Rootabaga Pigeons ( 1923 ).
The Rootabaga Country ( 1929 ).
Potato Face ( 1930 ).

About Sandburg
Penelope Niven, Carl Sandburg. Macmillan, 1991.
Helga Sandburg, Where Love Begins. Donald J. Fine , 1989.
Carl Sandburg from Modern American Poetry.
Carl Sandburg State Historic Site
Carl Sandburg Web

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