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Carl Sandbrugh
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Carl Sandburg was an important writer and poet of the 20th Century. He not only wrote hundreds of poems and stories, but he also won many awards and helped create a style of writing. His writings have had a big influence on American literature.
Sandburg was fascinated with American people and the way they talked (Hacker 85). To understand Carl Sandburg, a person must understand the time in which he lived. The late 1800’s and the early 1900’s was a difficult time to live because of immigrants coming to America for a better way of life and also the Great Depression. Sandburg’s parents came from Sweden to Galesburg, Illinois in 1871 and gave birth on January 6, 1878, to Carl August Sandburg (Crowder 21). Sandburg grew up speaking Swedish an
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