Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878, in Galesburg, Illinois. At the age of thirteen, he left school to work very odd jobs, like staking bricks and washing dishes to support his family. At the age seventeen, he traveled to Kansas as a hobo. Then he served eight months in Puerto Rico, because he was in the Spanish-American war. A young man that goes to a college in his hometown convinced him to enroll in Lombard College after the war. After college, he moved to Milwaukee, he worked as a news reporter and advertising writer. When he was there he married Lillian Stiechen, but he called her Paula. Also she was the sister of the photographer Edward Stiechen. They moved to Chicago, where Carl became an editorial writer for the Chicago Daily News.
ABOUT HIS/HER WORK:
As he was in school, he got an attraction to Professor Philip Green Wright. Who encourage him to write And paid for publication of his first volume
BORN: in January 6, 1878
DIED: in 1967
ABOUT HIS/HER LIFE:
Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878, in Galesburg, Illinois. At the age of thirteen, he left school to work very odd jobs, like staking bricks and washing dishes to support his family. At the age seventeen, he traveled to Kansas as a hobo. Then he served eight months in Puerto Rico, because he was in the Spanish-American war. A young man that goes to a college in his hometown convinced him to enroll in Lombard College after the war. After college, he moved to Milwaukee, he worked as a news reporter and advertising writer. When he was there he married Lillian Stiechen, but he called her Paula. Also she was the sister of the photographer Edward Stiechen. They moved to Chicago, where Carl became an editorial writer for the Chicago Daily News.
ABOUT HIS/HER WORK:
As he was in school, he got an attraction to Professor Philip Green Wright. Who encourage him to write And paid for publication of his first volume