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Carl August Sandburg ( January 6 , 1878 – July 22 , 1967 ) was an American Poet , Historian , Novelist , balladeer and Folklorist . He was born in Galesburg, Illinois of Swedish parents and died at his home, which he named Connemara, in Flat Rock, North Carolina . H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat." He was a successful journalist, poet, historian, biographer, and autobiographer. During the course of his career, Sandburg won two Pulitzer Prize s, one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln (''Abraham Lincoln: The War Years'') and one for his collection ''The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg''. Much of his poetry, such as " Chicago ", focused on Chicago, Illinois , where he spent time as a reporter for the '' Chicago Daily News '' and the '' Day Book ''. His most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders." During the area and Milwaukee that Sandburg was a member of the Social Democratic Party and took a strong interest in the Socialist community. In 1945, the Sandburg family moved from the Midwest, where they'd spent most of their lives, to the Connemara estate, in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Connemara was ideal for the family, as it gave Mr. Sandburg an entire mountain top to roam and enough solitude for him to write. It also provided Mrs. Sandburg over 30 acres of pasture to raise and graze her prize-winning dairy goats. He is also beloved 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 of Sandburg's desire for "American fairy tales" to match American childhood. He felt that the European stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, and so populated his stories with skyscrapers, trains, corn fairies and the "Five Marrrrvelous Pretzels". His home of 22 years in Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina is preserved by the National Park Service as the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site . Carl Sandburg College is located in Sandburg's birthplace of Galesburg, Illinois . The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign possesses the Carl Sandburg collection and archives. The bulk of the collection was purchased directly from Carl Sandburg and his family, with many smaller collections having been donated by his family and purchased from outside sources. REFERENCES Carl Sandburg is referred to in Sufjan Stevens ' song Come On! Feel The Illinoise! off his Illinois album. The song speaks of Carl appearing as a ghost, and questioning "Are you writing from the heart?" SOME WORKS BY SANDBURG
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