Location: Carl Sandburg Birthplace, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, United States. Ashes buried beneath the granite ‘Remembrance Rock’ in the back garden.
American writer and editor who is best remembered for his poetry. In 1919 Sandburg won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Corn Huskers. He won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History for The War Years, and a second Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1951 for Complete Poems.
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