Carl Sandburg is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Carl Sandburg as American writer and editor (1878–1967).
Carl Sandburg was born at Galesburg in 1878. His recorded nationality is United States. He was educated at Lombard College.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary form itself came under argument, and the certainties of the realist novel were dismantled.
He worked as poet, musicologist and historian.
The writing is recorded in English.
Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
The honours record reads: Pulitzer Prize for History (1940), Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1919) and Robert Frost Medal (1952).
That the work was written from United States matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Carl Sandburg died in 1967, aged 89. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
Achievements
- Pulitzer Prize for History — 1940
- Presidential Medal of Freedom — 1964
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry — 1919
- Robert Frost Medal — 1952
