About Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was an American folklorist, historian, poet, and novelist. It was while he was studying at the Galesburg-based Lombard College that he began to write prose and poetry. His very first booklets were published by Philip Green Wright his favorite professor in college. Ultimately, Carl Sandburg never graduated from college as he became a traveling salesman and then an orator and organizer for the Wisconsin branch of the Social Democratic Party. During this time, he for the most part worked writing socialist and business journals and for newspapers under a pseudonym and sometimes using his own name. He lived the last two decades of his life in Flat Rock, North Carolina on a 245-acre farm he named Connemara, which has now been turned into a National Historic Site.
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- Remembrance Rock(1948)
Publication Order of Children's Books
10 books in seriesPublication Order
- Rootabaga Stories(1922)
- Rootabaga Pigeons(1923)
- Abe Lincoln Grows Up(1928)
- Early Moon(1930)
- Prairie-Town Boy(1955)
- Wind Song(1960)
- The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll & The Broom Handle and Who Was in It(1967)
- The Sandburg Treasury(1970)
- Rainbows Are Made(1982)
- More Rootabaga Stories(1993)
Publication Order of Collections
18 books in seriesPublication Order
- Incidentals(1904)
- In Reckless Ecstasy(1904)
- Chicago Poems(1916)
- Cornhuskers(1918)
- Smoke and Steel(1920)
- Slabs of the Sunburnt(1922)
- Poems of the Midwest(1946)
- The Complete Poems(1950)
- Harvest Poems(1960)
- Honey and Salt(1963)
- Breathing Tokens(1978)
- Ever the Winds of Chance(1983)
- Fables, Foibles, and Foobles(1988)
- Arithmetic(1993)
- Billy Sunday And Other Poems(1993)
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
17 books in seriesPublication Order
- You and Your Job(1908)
- Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years(1926)
- The American Songbag(1927)
- Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow(1932)
- Abraham Lincoln: The War Years(1939)
- Storm Over The Land(1942)
- Home Front Memo(1943)
- New American Songbag(1950)
- Always the Young Strangers(1953)
- A Lincoln Preface(1953)
- The Letters of Carl Sandburg(1968)
- The Chicago Race Riots of 1919(1969)
- Ever the Winds of Chance(1983)
- Carl Sandburg at the Movies(1985)
- The Movies Are(2000)
Publication Order of Poetry Books
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- The People, Yes(2009)
Publication Order of American Poets Project Books
1 books in seriesPublication Order
- Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems(1996)
Publication Order of Poetry for Young People Books
2 books in seriesPublication Order
- Carl Sandburg(1995)
- Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg(2008)
Publication Order of Anthologies
5 books in seriesPublication Order
- War: An Anthology(1969)
- Beat the Drum, Independence Day Has Come: Poems for the Fourth of July(1977)
- The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales(1993)
- 100 Best-Loved Poems(1995)
- Baseball: a Literary Anthology(2002)
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Carl Sandburg has written over 55 books across 8 different series, making them one of the most prolific authors in their genre.