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Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg

Creator · born January 6, 1878 · died 1967

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Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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  1. ~41Received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry1919
  2. ~86Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom1964

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