Carl Sandburg, born January 6, 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois (Griffith 108).
             Sandburg's parents August and Clara Anderson Sandburg were Swedish immigrants who came from Sweden in 1875. In Galesburg Carl only completed eight years of education before dropping out at the age of eleven. Sandburg then spent almost a decade working odd jobs and traveling as a hobo. During this time writing greatly influenced his life. When the Spanish-American war broke out Sandburg traveled to Puerto Rico for volunteer work. In 1898 at the age of twenty Sandburg entered Lombard College (Barr 1). At Lombard College Sandburg was such an excellent writer he was named editor of the college newspaper. Sandburg was not only the editor of the newspaper, but he also became captain of Lombard's College basketball team (Anderson 129). After Sandburg completed college he became active in the Socialist Party for about ten years. While Sandburg traveled as a hobo he began to collect ballads, folktales and legends, which also improved his writing skills (Griffith 108). Sandburg was greatly inspired by poet Walt Whitman, and in 1918 he completed the book Honey and Salt, this was one of Sandburg's largest works (Allen 578). Sandburg later moved to Chicago and became a part of the Chicago School. The Chicago School was a group of writers that lived in Chicago at this specific time. Some of the writers included, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hacht and Edgar Lee Masters (Griffith 108). In 1921 Sandburg wrote what was to be his best anthology Leaves of Grass (Allen 597). Sandburg wrote
             small simple poems and stories. He himself was a simple man that like simple things in liked simple things in life (Sandburg 72). Sandburg didn't have much of a social life. He never even married or had any kids. In 1939 Sandburg composed a six volume biography on Abraham Lincoln (Anderson 129). In 1940 volume 4 Abraham Lincoln: The War Years won a Pulitzer
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