It's going to finish when I fold my hand and go up to the big poker game in the sky.

Writer, poet and biographer                          

Selected Works:

In Reckless Ecstasy - 1904 - poetry - originally published as Charles Sandburg
Abe Lincoln Grows Up - N/A
Incidentals - 1904 - poetry and prose - originally published as Charles Sandburg
Plaint of a Rose - 1908 - poetry - originally published as Charles Sandburg
Joseffy - 1910 - prose - originally published as Charles Sandburg
You and Your Job - 1910 - prose - originally published as Charles Sandburg
Chicago Poems - 1916 - poetry
Cornhuskers - 1918 - poetry
Chicago Race Riots - 1919 - prose, with an introduction by Walter Lippmann
Clarence Darrow of Chicago - 1919 - prose
Smoke and Steel - 1920 - poetry
Rootabaga Stories - 1920 - children's stories
Slabs of the Sunburnt West - 1922 - poetry
Rootabaga Pigeons - 1923 - children's stories
Selected Poems - 1926 - poetry
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years - 1926 - biography
The American Songbag - 1927 - folk songs
Songs of America - 1927 - folk songs collected by Sandburg; edited by Alfred V. Frankenstein
Abe Lincoln Grows Up - 1928 - biography - primarily for children
Good Morning, America - 1928 - poetry
Steichen the Photographer - 1929 - history
Early Moon - 1930 - poetry
Potato Face - 1930 - children's stories
Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow - 1932 - biography
The People, Yes - 1936 - poetry
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years - 1939 - biography
Storm over the Land - 1942 - biography - excerpts from Sandburg's own Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
Road to Victory - 1942 - exhibition catalog - text by Sandburg; images compiled by Edward Steichen and published by the Museum of Modern Art
Home Front Memo - 1943 - essays
Remembrance Rock - 1948 - novel
Lincoln Collector: the story of the Oliver R. Barrett Lincoln collection - 1949 - prose
The New American Songbag - 1950 - folk songs
Complete Poems - 1950 - poetry
The wedding procession of the rag doll and the broom handle and who was in it - 1950 - children's story
Always the Young Strangers - 1953 - autobiography
Selected poems of Carl Sandburg - 1954 - poetry edited by Rebecca West
The Family of Man - 1955 - exhibition catalog - introduction; images compiled by Edward Steichen
Prairie-town boy - 1955 - autobiography - essentially excerpts from Always the Young Strangers
Sandburg Range - 1957 - prose and poetry
Harvest Poems, 1910-1960 - 1960 - poetry
Wind Song - 1960 - poetry
Honey and Salt - 1963 - poetry
The Letters of Carl Sandburg - 1968 autobiographical/correspondence - edited by Herbert Mitgang
Breathing Tokens poetry by Sandburg, edited by Margaret Sandburg  - 1978 poetry
Ever the Winds of Chance - 1983 - autobiography - started by Sandburg, completed by Margaret Sandburg and George Hendrick
Carl Sandburg at the movies : a poet in the silent era, 1920-1927 - 1985 - selections of his reviews of silent movies - collected and edited by Dale Fetherling and Doug Fetherling
Billy Sunday and other poems - 1993 - edited with an introduction by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick
Poems for children nowhere near old enough to vote - 1999 - compiled and with an introduction by George and Willene Hendrick
Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years and the war years - 2007 - illustrated edition with an introduction by Alan Axelrod.
                          

First wife Isabell Routy, three children.
Second wife, Lilian Steichen, three children.                          

Pulitzer Prize - Poetry
Pulitzer Prize - Biography of Abraham Lincoln.