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Carl Sandberg
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Carl Sandburg was a great man. His life was one of fame,
once he began writing. He inspired many people. He also became
an American Marvel. His works still remain read even today, 30
years after his death.
His life was an interesting one. His parents immigrated to the
US from Sweden. His parents moved to Galesburg, Illinois. He
attended public schools. At the age of thirteen, he had to give up
public school and go to work to help earn money for his family.
First, he drove a milk truck. Next he worked in a barber shop Then
he went on to change sets in theater, operated a brick kiln, and
worked as a carpenter, house painter and dishwasher. When he
was older, he joined the fight against the Spanish in the
Spanish-American War. He spent a long eight months in Puerto
Rico. After the war, he went to Lombard College. Afterwards , he
went on to work as an organizer for the Social-Democratic Party in
Wisconsin, during 1907 through 1908. That was also the year he
got married. He also wrote for the Leader, a newspaper in
Milwaukee. He then went on to the city of Chicago. There, he
wrote for the two newspapers, the Daily News and the Daybook.
He liked writing for newspapers some, but his true passion was
poetry. Some of his early poems were published in the Chicago
newspapers he worked for.
With his love for poetry grew, the demand for his
poetry also grew. In the year 1916, at the age of thirty eight, he
published the book, Chicago poems. Two years later, at the age of
forty, he published Cornhuskers. The public loved these two
marvelous books. Other poets accepted them as wonderful. In the
1920s he became so popular, that he