Famous for his poetry as well as his biography of Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years, Carl Sandburg was born on this day January 6, 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois. Sandburg’s most notable works of poetry are Chicago Poems (1916), Corn Huskers (1918) for which he received the Pulitzer Prize, The People, Yes (1936), Good Morning, America (1928), Slabs of …
