Status Updates From Carl Sandburg: A Biography

With the Great Depression as a sobering backdrop, the decade of the 1930s was nonetheless a busy time for Sandburg, which saw him achieve critical acclaim as both a poet and historian. He completed his multi-volume Lincoln biography (The Prairie Years and The War Years) and composed and published perhaps his best known work of poetry - The People, Yes. As the decade ends, WWII is increasingly on his mind.

With the Great Depression as a sobering backdrop, the decade of the 1930s was nonetheless a busy time for Sandburg, which saw him achieve critical acclaim as both a poet and historian. He completed his critically acclaimed multi-volume Lincoln biography (The Prairie Years and The War years) and composed and published perhaps his best known work of poetry - The People, Yes.

Nearing the end of WWI, Sandburg is finally achieving lasting and more widespread notoriety as a poet on a national stage, With a wife, three young kids, and a mortgage, his newspaper jobs continue to pay the bills, however. His career as a poet and author is still his primary focus, and at this point he's taking a detour from the more somber poems writings influenced by the war into the world of children's books.

"...the isolation, the brooding and the reverence and the solemn moments that are often a requisite to personal development."