Carl Sandburg was born of Swedish immigrant parents in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878. Mr. Sandburg is the author of the children's classic Rootabaga Stories (for which one of our buildings is named); a collection of folk songs, The American Songbag; and an autobiography, Always the Young Strangers. In addition, he is the author of a number of well-known books such as The People, Yes; Wind Song; Harvest Poems, 1910, 1960; The Sandburg Range; Abe Lincoln Grows Up; Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years; Honey and Salt; and Early Moon.

 
Mr. Sandburg won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1951 for Complete Poems which included Cornhuskers; Smoke and Steel; Slabs of the Sunburnt West; Good Morning, America; The People,Yes; and Chicago Poems. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1940 for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years.