Letter to Carl Sandburg After Reading His Autobiography 'Always the Young Strangers' Published on His 75th Birthday January 6, 1953

43 pp. Carl Sandburg, (born Jan. 6, 1878, Galesburg, Ill., U.S. - died July 22, 1967, Flat Rock, N.C.), American poet, historian, novelist, and folklorist. From the age of 11, Sandburg worked in various occupations - as a barbershop porter, a milk truck driver, a brickyard hand, and a harvester in the Kansas wheat fields. When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, he enlisted in the 6th Illinois Infantry. These early years he later described in his autobiography Always the Young Strangers (1953). - Britannica.