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Born in January 6, 1878 / Died in July 22, 1967 / United States / English

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  • (As Charles A. Sandburg) In Reckless Ecstasy, Asgard Press, 1904.
  • (As Charles A. Sandburg) The Plaint of a Rose, Asgard Press, 1905.
  • (As Charles A. Sandburg) Incidentals, Asgard Press, 1905.
  • (As Charles A. Sandburg) You and Your Job, [Chicago], ca. 1906.
  • (As Charles Sandburg) Joseffy (promotional biography; commissioned by a wandering magician), Asgard Press, 1910.
  • Chicago Poems, Holt, 1916, reprinted, Dover, 1994.
  • Cornhuskers, Holt, 1918.
  • The Chicago Race Riots, July, 1919, Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1919, reprinted with new introduction, 1969.
  • Smoke and Steel (also see below), Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920.
  • Rootabaga Stories (also see below), Harcourt, Brace, 1922, illustrated by Maud Fuller Petersham and Miska Petersham, Barefoot Books, 1994.
  • Slabs of the Sunburnt West (also see below), Harcourt, Brace, 1922.
  • Rootabaga Pigeons (also see below), Harcourt, Brace, 1923.
  • Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg, edited by Rebecca West, Harcourt, Brace, 1926.
  • Songs of America, Harcourt, Brace, 1926.
  • (Editor) The American Songbag, Harcourt, Brace, 1927.
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (also see below), Harcourt, Brace, 1927.
  • Abe Lincoln Grows Up, Harcourt, Brace, 1928.
  • Good Morning, America (also see below), Harcourt, Brace, 1928.
  • Rootabaga Country: Selections from Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons, Harcourt, Brace, 1929.
  • Steichen, the Photographer, Harcourt, Brace, 1929.
  • M'Liss and Louie, J. Zeitlin (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1929.
  • Early Moon, Harcourt, Brace, 1930.
  • Potato Face, Harcourt, Brace, 1930.
  • (With Paul M. Angle) Mary Lincoln, Wife and Widow, Harcourt, Brace, 1932, reprinted, Applewood, 1995.
  • The People, Yes, Harcourt, Brace, 1936.
  • Smoke and Steel [and] Slabs of the Sunburnt West, Harcourt, Brace, 1938.
  • A Lincoln and Whitman Miscellany, Holiday Press, 1938.
  • Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (also see below), four volumes, Harcourt, Brace, 1939.
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Sangamon Edition, six volumes, Scribner, 1940.
  • Bronze Wood, Grabhorn Press, 1941.
  • Storm Over the Land, Harcourt, Brace, 1942.
  • Smoke and Steel, Slabs of the Sunburnt West [and] Good Morning, America (omnibus volume), Harcourt, Brace, 1942.
  • Home Front Memo, Harcourt, Brace, 1943.
  • (With Frederick Hill Meserve) Photographs of Abraham Lincoln, Harcourt, Brace, 1944.
  • Poems of the Midwest, two volumes, World Publishing, 1946.
  • The Lincoln Reader: An Appreciation, privately printed, 1947.
  • Remembrance Rock (novel), Harcourt, Brace, 1948.
  • Lincoln Collector: The Story of Oliver R. Barrett's Great Private Collection, Harcourt, Brace, 1949.
  • (Editor) Carl Sandburg's New American Songbag, Broadcast Music, Inc., 1950. Complete Poems, Harcourt, Brace, 1950, revised and enlarged edition published as The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg, 1970.
  • Always the Young Strangers (autobiography), Harcourt, Brace, 1952.
  • A Lincoln Preface, Harcourt, Brace, 1953.
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, Harcourt, 1954, reprinted, 1974.
  • Prairie-Town Boy, Harcourt, Brace, 1955.
  • The Sandburg Range, Harcourt, Brace, 1957.
  • Chicago Dynamic, Harcourt, Brace, 1957.
  • The Fiery Trial, Dell, 1959.
  • Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, February 12, 1959, Harcourt, Brace, 1959 (also published as Carl Sandburg on Abraham Lincoln, [Cedar Rapids], 1959, and as Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1959, J. St. Onge, 1959).
  • Abraham Lincoln, three volume condensation of earlier work, Dell, 1959.
  • Harvest Poems, 1910-1960, Harcourt, Brace, 1960.
  • Wind Song, Harcourt, Brace, 1960.
  • Six New Poems and a Parable, privately printed, 1960.
  • Address Upon the Occasion of Abraham Lincoln's One Hundredth Inaugural Anniversary, Black Cat Books, 1961.
  • Honey and Salt, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963.
  • The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It (chapter of Rootabaga stories), Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.
  • The Letters of Carl Sandburg, edited by Herbert Mitgang, Harcourt, 1968.
  • A Sandburg Treasury: Prose & Poetry for Young People, Harcourt, 1970.
  • Seven Poems, illustrated with seven original etchings by Gregory Masurovsky, Associated American Artists, 1970.
  • Breathing Tokens, edited by daughter Margaret Sandburg, Harcourt, 1978.
  • Ever the Winds of Chance, edited by daughter M. Sandburg and George Hendrick, University of Illinois Press, 1983.
  • Fables, Foibles and Foobles, edited by Hendrick, University of Illinois Press, 1988.
  • Arithmetic, Harcourt, 1993.
  • Billy Sunday and Other Poems, Harcourt, 1993.
  • More Rootabagas, Knopf, 1993.
  • Carl Sandburg (children's poems), edited by Frances S. Bolin, illustrated by Steve Arcella, Sterling, 1995.
  • Poetry for Young People, Sterling, 1995.
  • (Author of introduction) Lincoln's Devotional, Applewood, 1996.
  • Selected Poems, edited by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick, Harcourt, 1996.
  • Grassroots (children's poems), Browndeer, 1997.

Also author of commentary for U.S. Government film "Bomber." Author of captions for "Road to Victory" mural photograph show, 1942. Collaborator on screenplay for the film "King of Kings," 1960. The World of Carl Sandburg, a stage presentation by Norman Corwin, was published by Harcourt in 1961. Contributor to International Socialist Review, Tomorrow, Poetry, Saturday Evening Post, Masses, Little Review, New Leader, Nation, and Playboy.