Carl Sandburg liked simple poems. His parents came from Sweden. They had chosen the United States as their home. Sandburg grew up in Illinois. By the age of eighteen, he had left home. He traveled across the country, and he often caught rides on trains.
At the age of twenty, Sandburg joined the army. He served breifly in Puerto Rico. Then he returned home and attended Lombard College.
As a boy, Sandburg had thought about the name Carl. It sounded too foreign., so he took the name Carl. He used his name again, and he became proud of his Swedish ancestors.
Sandburg won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1951. He did not just write poems. He also gone across the country. He collected and sung American folk tales.
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