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Carl
Sandburg His Life and Works
North Callahan
January | 1987 | 276 pages
Literature-American
Paperback: $24.95 SH
ISBN-10: 0-271-02454-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-02454-7
The complete and definitive biography
of a unique writer and rare personality. Carl Sandburg was a many-faceted
man: poet, musician, biographer, historian, writer of children's,
books, and novelist. Callahan knew Sandburg personally and worked
with him in various historical enterprises. He has done extensive
research on letters, diaries, scholarly papers, and other documents
in various libraries and archives around the country, including material
in the Sandburg homes and especially in the Carl Sandburg Collection
at the University of IIlinois. Callahan has interviewed many friends
and former associates of Sandburg including Allen Nevins, Harry Hansen
C. D. Batchelor, Douglas Southall Freeman, and Ralph McCall; he had
the close cooperation of the Sandburg family, especially that of
the poet's widow. Literary scholars will be concerned with Sandburg's
poetry, his novel, and children's books; historians, with his great
biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Because of Callahan's association with Sandburg over many years,
a personal sense of Sandburg's presence pervades this hook. We e
see in full the influences that shaped Sandburg the reading, the
poverty, and the social conditions of his early life and his impart
on his generation.
This book is a vivid description and celebration of Sandburg life,
much more comprehensive and detailed than any, previous such account.
It is rich and full in striking factual information and revealing
and highly entertaining anecdotes.
North Callahan (August 7, 1908-December
28, 2004) was an American historian and scholar. Born in Sweetwater,
Tennessee, he was educated at the Tennessee Military Institute and
the University of Chattanooga, where he graduated cum laude in 1930.
He later earned a master's degree from Columbia University and a
Ph.D from New York University. He authored numerous articles and
17 books, and some of those have received various awards. In 1964,
Callahan was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the
University of Chattanooga.
