A Sandburg Stumper

[Rob Wick]

OK, Gene, close enough.

Sandburg won a prize which was actually sponsored by the Poetry Society of America in 1919. It was for Corn Huskers. The Poetry Society was instrumental in establishing the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, so some authors count it while others don't.

The second came for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years in 1940. What made this interesting is that the Pulitzers were never awarded in biography for books about Lincoln or Washington, so he received it in history.

The third came for The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg in 1951.

You win the Norton Prize for Trivial Excellence. See Roger.

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Rob