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
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.
Most Recent Appearance
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".
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Carl is related to the Swedish royal dynasty, Vasa.
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Carl Sandburg is referred to in Sufjan Stevens' song "Come on! Feel the Illinoise!" on his "Illinois" album.
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On January 6, 1978, the 100th anniversary of his birth, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp honoring Carl.
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Carl Sandburg Village is a Chicago urban renewal project of the 1960's located in the Near North Side, Chicago.
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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.
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Carl: You could mail a copy of Incidentals in an ordinary letter envelope, it was that small a book.
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Carl: Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
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Carl: When no college events or odd jobs were doing, I worked Saturdays, Sundays, and evenings from about 6:30 to 10 o'clock.
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Carl: When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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