US poet. He worked as a farm labourer and a bricklayer, and his poetry celebrates ordinary life in the USA, as in
Chicago Poems (1916),
The People, Yes (1936), and
Complete Poems (1950; Pulitzer Prize). In free verse, it is reminiscent of Walt Whitman's poetry. Sandburg also wrote a monumental biography of Abraham Lincoln,
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (1926; two volumes) and
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939; four volumes; Pulitzer Prize).
Always the Young Strangers (1953) is his autobiography.
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