Carl Sandburg
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Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandb
Sandburg in 1955
Sandburg c. 1914
Sandburg's home in Ravenswood, Chicago, where he wrote "Chicago", designated a Chicago Landmark in 2005.
Remembrance Rock gravesite
Rootabaga Stories
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Rootabaga Stories is a children's book of interrelated short stories by Carl Sandburg. The whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories, which often use nonsense language, were originally created for his o
Carl Sandburg
…Cornhuskers, and for his biography of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years). Sandburg is also remembered by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons, a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created for his own daughters. The Rootabaga Stories were born…
Cover of the first edition (1922) of what is sometimes called Book One; illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham
Frontispiece of the 1922 first edition of Rootabaga Stories. Illustration by Maud and Miska Petersham.
Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems, cover