Carl Sandburg bibliography

This is a list of works written by the American poet, biographer, and journalist Carl Sandburg. ^[1]

Poetry

• In Reckless Ecstasy (The Asgard Press, 1904). ^{[2] [3] [a]}
• Incidentals (The Asgard Press, 1904). ^[b]
• The Plaint of the Rose (The Asgard Press, 1908). ^[c]
• Chicago Poems (Henry Holt, 1916).
• Cornhuskers (Henry Holt, 1918).
• Smoke and Steel (Harcourt, 1920).
• Slabs of the Sunburnt West (Harcourt, 1922).
• Selected Poems (Harcourt, 1926).
• Good Morning, America (Harcourt, 1928).
• The People, Yes (Harcourt, 1936). ^[4]
• Bronze Wood (Grabhorn Press, 1941).
• Poems of the Midwest (World Publishing Company, 1946).
• The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (Harcourt, 1950). ^[3]
• Harvest Poems (Harcourt, 1960).
• Six New Poems and a Parable (University of Kentucky Press, 1961).
• Honey and Salt (Harcourt, 1963).
• Breathing Tokens (edited by Margaret Sandburg, Harcourt, 1978).
• Fables, Foibles and Foobles (University of Illinois Press, 1989).
• Billy Sunday and Other Poems (Harcourt, 1993).
• Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg (Harcourt, 1996).

Prose

• You and Your Job (Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1908). ^[d]
• Joseffy (1910). ^[e]
• Clarence Darrow of Chicago (1919).
• Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (Harcourt, 1925). ^{[3] [5]}
• The American Songbag (Harcourt, 1927). ^{[6] [7] [8]}
• Steichen the Photographer (Harcourt, 1929).
• Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (Harcourt, 1932).
• Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (Harcourt, 1939). ^{[3] [5]}
• Storm over the Land (Harcourt, 1942).
• Home Front Memo (Harcourt, 1943).
• Remembrance Rock (Harcourt, 1948).
• Lincoln Collector: The Story of the Oliver R. Barrett Lincoln Collection (Harcourt, 1949).
• Always the Young Strangers (Harcourt, 1953). ^[9]
• A Lincoln Preface (Harcourt, 1953).
• Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (Harcourt, 1954). ^[5]
• The Sandburg Range (Harcourt, 1957).
• The Letters of Carl Sandburg (Harcourt, 1968).
• The Chicago Race Riots of 1919 (Harcourt, 1969).
• Prairie-Town Boy (Harcourt, 1977)
• Ever the Winds of Chance (University of Illinois Press, 1983). ^[10]
• Carl Sandburg at the Movies (Scarecrow Press, 1985).
• The Poet and the Dream Girl: The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen & Carl Sandburg (University of Illinois Press, 1987).
• The Movies Are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays (Lake Claremont Press, 2000).
• The Sandburg Range (Harvest Books, 2001).
• Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (2007)

Children's books

• Rootabaga Stories (Harcourt, 1922). ^[3]
• Rootabaga Pigeons (Harcourt, 1923).
• Abe Lincoln Grows Up (Harcourt, 1928). ^[3]
• Early Moon (Junior Literary Guild, 1930).
• Potato Face (Harcourt, 1930).
• Prairie-Town Boy (Harcourt, 1955).
• Wind Song (Harcourt, 1960).
• The Wedding Procession of the Rag doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It (Harcourt, 1967).
• The Sandburg Treasury (Harcourt, 1970).
• Rainbows Are Made (Harcourt, 1982).
• More Rootabagas (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993).

Notes

1. Originally published as Charles Sandburg
2. Originally published as Charles Sandburg
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5. Originally published as Charles Sandburg

1. "Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site - Works by Carl Sandburg". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
2. Sandburg, Carl; Collamore, Bacon (1904). In reckless ecstasy. Harvard University. Galesburg, Ill., Asgard Press.
3. "Sandburg Family Timeline - Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
4. "Carl Sandburg: The People Yes (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
5. "Carl Sandburg, the Biographer of Lincoln (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
6. Sandburg, Carl (1927). The American Songbag. Osmania University, Digital Library Of India. Harcout Brace And Company.
7. "Sandburg and Music - Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
8. Altman, Ross (2017-08-29). "CARL SANDBURG:AMERICA'S FIRST FOLK SINGER?". FolkWorks. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
9. Sandburg, Carl (1952). Always the Young Strangers. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
10. Sandburg, Carl (1983). Ever the Winds of Chance. Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press.