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Carl Sandburg

By alabesky

  • Date of Birth

    Date of Birth
    Carl Sandburg was born in 1878 in Getesburg, Illinois

  • Drop Out

    In 8th grade Carl Sandburg dropped out school to begin working.

  • Traveling

    Carl Sandburg makes his first trip to Chicago at the age of 18.

  • The Army

    The Army
    Carl Sandburg joins the military for the Spanish American War.
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  • Prison

    Prison
    Carl get put in jail in PA for not being able to pay his train fare.

  • Chicago Poems

    Chicago Poems
    Publishes "Chicago Poems".

  • Promotion

    Carl Sandburg becomes a war correspondent during WW1.

  • Moving

    Carl moves to Michigan.

  • The People, Yes

    Publishes his most famous book, "The People, Yes".

  • Pulitzer Prize

    Pulitzer Prize
    He won a Pulitzer Prize for "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years".

  • Complete Poems

    He publishes Sandburg's Complete Poems which won him yet another Pulitzer Prize.

  • Date of Death

    Date of Death
    Carl sandburg died on july 22, 1967 from heart family.