Carl Sandburg

Sandburg, Carl (1878–1967), U.S. poet and biographer who won Pulitzer prizes for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1940) and Complete Poems (1951). He left school at 13 and at 20 fought in the Spanish-American war. While a journalist in Chicago, he wrote vigorous earthy free verse, as in Chicago Poems (1916) and Smoke and Steel (1920). He was also a notable folk-song anthologist.