Monday, September 24, 2012

Remember "The fog comes on little cat feet..."

Carl Sandburg was a classic American tale of success -- a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, a biographer, a journalist, children's storyteller, folk song collector, novelist and autobiographer. He became one of the most successful writers in the English language, rising from impoverished beginnings on the prairie of Illinois to the halls of Congress to the Ed Sullivan Show, on the force of his free verse poetry. After his death in 1967 his star has dimmed a little...but it seems to be coming back. AMERICAN MASTERS: THE DAY CARL SANDBURG DIED...9pm

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