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Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet and writer. He received three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and another for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

His parents were poor Swedish immigrants and as one of seven children, he left school at the age of 13 to work. He worked hard in many different jobs and was sensitive to the difficulties of the working class. He believed in social justice and equality.

Sandburg’s first book Chicago Poems, was published in 1916, and his last collection of poems, Honey and Salt, appeared in 1963, when he was 85. 

He was famous in the United States as the “Poet of the People.”

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