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Carl Sandburg

1878 - 1967

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Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Sandburg has received more than 1,600,532 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Carl Sandburg is the 2,784th most popular writer (down from 1,972nd in 2019), the 3,540th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,576th in 2019) and the 307th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Smoke and steel
Accessible book, American poetry
1920
The people, yes
American poetry, Poesia Norte Americana, Texts
1936
Chicago poems
Poetry
1916
Abraham Lincoln
Biography, History, Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
1926
Rootabaga stories
Fairy tales, Short stories, Children's stories, American
Presents Sandburg's fanciful, humorous tales peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others.
1922
Abe Lincoln grows up
Juvenile literature, Presidents, Biography
1928

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carl Sandburg ranks 2,784 out of 7,302. Before him are Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Josephine Tey, Larry Niven, Marion Chesney, Guido Guinizelli, and Ōtomo no Yakamochi. After him are Kamo no Chōmei, Matthías Jochumsson, Tadeusz Różewicz, Philitas of Cos, James Herriot, and Symeon of Polotsk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Carl Sandburg ranks 106. Before him are Mirra Alfassa, Theodoros Pangalos, Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Michel Théato, Anna Demidova, and Egon Friedell. After him are Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Myer Prinstein, J. F. C. Fuller, Clara Westhoff, Ioannis Rallis, and Karl Buresch. Among people deceased in 1967, Carl Sandburg ranks 119. Before him are Joseph Cardijn, Albert Lutuli, Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Morris Swadesh, and Varian Fry. After him are Richard Ruoff, Victor de Sabata, Enrico Dante, Bob Anderson, Holland Smith, and Tudor Arghezi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Sandburg ranks 3,540 out of 20,380. Before him are Tony Goldwyn (1960), Louis Prima (1910), Jimmy McLane (1930), Marie Smith Jones (1918), Larry Niven (1938), and Robert Lansing (1864). After him are Don Norman (1935), Richard Beymer (1938), Paul Gleason (1939), Lou Henry Hoover (1874), Jim Brown (1936), and Barbara Hendricks (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Carl Sandburg ranks 307. Before him are Stephenie Meyer (1973), Harold Robbins (1916), Carl Bernstein (1944), John Zerzan (1943), Varian Fry (1907), and Larry Niven (1938). After him are R. A. Salvatore (1959), Ben Hecht (1893), William L. Shirer (1904), Anne McCaffrey (1926), Maurice Sendak (1928), and Jonathan Franzen (1959).

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