Carl Sandburg, Yes (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: William Garland Rogers
- First Published: 1970
- Time of Work: 1878–1967
- Setting: Galesburg, Illinois; Harbert, Michigan; Flat Rock, North Carolina; and Green Bay and Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Principal Characters: Carl Sandburg, August Sandburg, Clara Mathilda Andersdotter Sandburg, Paula Steichen, Edward Steichen, Philip Green Wright, Alfred Harcourt
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Authors or writers, Midwest, Poetry or poets, Novelists, Historians, Biography
- Locales: Michigan, Milwaukee, WI, Flat Rock, NC, Galesburg, IL, Green Bay, WI
Form and Content
Carl Sandburg, Yes—the title was suggested by Sandburg’s 1936 volume of poems, The People, Yes—is an interesting work bordering on biography proper and social history. William Garland Rogers recounts the story of one of the most distinctively American writers of the twentieth century and, in so doing, painstakingly depicts the rich milieu in which Sandburg grew up and came of age: the American Midwest. Sandburg’s self-realization as a writer, poet, and historian—resulting in a body of work spanning more than five decades—was nurtured...
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