Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham …

Finally, in 1939 Carl Sandburg published the four-volume Pulitzer-Prize winning biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. In these writings, the stories of Lincoln and the people and their times are told.

This success encouraged Sandburg to continue his biographical work of Lincoln’s life. While he continued working in earnest on the next installment, he also published a book of poetry and …

He wrote the popular biography Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, 2 vol. (1926), and Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 4 vol. (1939; Pulitzer Prize in history, 1940).

Though Sandburg did deny the story that in preparation he read everything ever published on Lincoln, he did collect and classify Lincoln material for 30 years, moving himself into a garret, storing his extra …

Jan 8, 2026 · Carl Sandburg’s biography of Abraham Lincoln, published in multiple volumes between 1926 and 1939, is one of the most comprehensive accounts of Lincoln’s life and legacy.

From childhood, Sandburg loved and admired the legacy of President Lincoln. For thirty years he sought out and collected material, and gradually began the writing of the six-volume definitive biography of …

Jul 1, 2019 · In 1926, Sandburg published the first volumes of what would become his massive biography of Abraham Lincoln. The project, which was originally conceived to be the story of Lincoln …

From childhood, Sandburg had loved and admired the legacy of President Lincoln. For 30 years he had sought out and collected material, and gradually began writing the six-volume biography of the fallen …

Aug 18, 2012 · Sandburg was a popular platform performer, playing the guitar and singing American folk music, and reading his poetry and prose. In 1926 he published the two-volume biography Abraham …