1. Carl Sandburg
... the winter months would he devote his time to writing poetry (Hacker 84-85). On July 22, 1967, Sandburg died peacefully in his sleep. His body was cremated, and the ashes were sprinkled under a granite boulder behind the three-room cottage in Galesburg (Hacker 110). Lyndon Johnson summarized the legacy of Carl Sandburg stating: "Carl Sandburg was more than a voice of ... every morning, Sandburg would watch a thin man pass his house lost in thought. His name was Professor Philip Green Wright, and the reason some of his works were published (Hacker 39). These influences were a big part of...
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