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Most Recent Role: on American Playhouse
Alias Name(s): Charles Sandburg
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Birthday: 1-6-1878
Birth Name: Carl August Sandburg
Date of Death: 7-22-1967
Cause of Death: Heart Attack
Carl Sandburg was a successful journalist, poet, historian, biographer, and autobiographer. During the course of his career, Sandburg won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) and one for his collection The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg.

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American Playhouse
Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
Tuesday 2 March 1982 on PBS

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Carl appears in a live version of Bob Dylan's "Talkin' World War III Blues". (edit)
Carl is related to the Swedish royal dynasty, Vasa. (edit)
Carl Sandburg is referred to in Sufjan Stevens' song "Come on! Feel the Illinoise!" on his "Illinois" album. (edit)
On January 6, 1978, the 100th anniversary of his birth, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp honoring Carl. (edit)
Carl Sandburg Village is a Chicago urban renewal project of the 1960's located in the Near North Side, Chicago. (edit)

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Carl: You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget. (edit)
Carl: You could mail a copy of Incidentals in an ordinary letter envelope, it was that small a book. (edit)
Carl: Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. (edit)
Carl: When no college events or odd jobs were doing, I worked Saturdays, Sundays, and evenings from about 6:30 to 10 o'clock. (edit)
Carl: When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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