Carl Sandburg, Yes | Carl Sandburg, Yes

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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

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...

Carl Sandburg, Yes | Carl Sandburg, Yes

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