January 6, 2007

• It's the birthday of journalist, poet, novelist, and biographer Carl Sandburg, 
  born in Galesburg, Illinois (1878). He was a poet and a political
  journalist, but he didn't have any real financial success until a
  publisher suggested that he write a biography of Abraham Lincoln. His Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years,
  published
  in 1926 (see posting January 4, 2007), was Sandburg's first best-seller. He moved to a new home and
  devoted the next several years to completing four additional volumes.

  From the Writer's Almanac with Garrison Kellor
  

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