Carl Sandburg was born in 1878 in Illinois. He had a variety of jobs as a young man, including delivering milk and working as a hobo, which influenced his writing. Sandburg wrote poetry and folk songs throughout his life, winning the Pulitzer Prize twice. He moved to North Carolina in 1945 and lived there until his death in 1967.

1. By : Nicole Sue Kim, Asia Yi, Brigitte Lee, Isadora
Oh, JungeunSohn

2.  Grew up in Illinois.
 He went to university of Chicago for 4 years.
 Carl Sandburg worked from the time he was a
young boy. He delivered milk, harvested
ice, laid bricks, threshed wheat in Kansas, and
shined shoes in Galesburg's Union Hotel before
traveling as a hobo in 1897.
 Was born in the three-room cottage at 313 East
Third Street in Galesburg on January 6, 1878.

3.  He wanted other people to know and read his
poems.
 His experiences working and traveling greatly
influenced his writing and political views. As a
hobo he learned a number of folk songs, which
he later performed at speaking engagements.

4.  He was born in January 6, 1878 Was born in the
three-room cottage at 313 East Third Street in
Galesburg on January 6, 1878.
 His death was in July 22, 1967. Behind the
home stands a small wooded park.
There, beneath Remembrance Rock, lie the
ashes of Carl Sandburg, who died in 1967. Ten
years later, the ashes of his wife were placed
there.

5.  Carl Sandburg wrote about people he met and
faces he remembered.
 He wrote strictly free verses.
 Sandburg wrote publishing more poems, a
novel, Remembrance Rock, a second volume of folk
songs, and an autobiography, Always the Young
Strangers. In 1945 the Sandburgs moved with their
herd of prize-winning goats and thousands of books
to Flat Rock, North Carolina. Sandburg's Complete
Poems won him a second Pulitzer Prize in 1951.

6.  He was deciding still what to do with his wife.
 He was a great poet who wrote
 Many of the furnishings once belonged to the
Sandburg family.
 Sandburg wrote publishing more poems, a
novel, Remembrance Rock, a second volume of folk
songs, and an autobiography, Always the Young
Strangers. In 1945 the Sandburgs moved with their
herd of prize-winning goats and thousands of books
to Flat Rock, North Carolina. Sandburg's Complete
Poems won him a second Pulitzer Prize in 1951.

7.  Carl Sandburg was suggested to write a
biography of Abraham Lincoln for children but
after researching and writing for three years, he
produced not a children's book, but a two-
volume biography for adults. His Abraham
Lincoln: The Prairie Years, published in 1926,
was his first financial success. He then wrote
more poems. His poems became famous when
a group of them were published into a
magazine.