Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) was a musician, historian, biographer, fiction writer, and, as he is most well known, a poet. Taking after Whitman, he celebrated the common American experience and was appreciated and read by the masses and scholars alike. He won two Pulitzer prizes, one for his biography of "Abraham Lincoln, and one for his Collected Poems. He once observed: “I'll probably die propped up in bed trying to write a poem about America.”