American Masters explores the life and career of Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning novelist Philip Roth, often referred to as the greatest living American writer. Reclusive and diffident, Roth grants very few interviews, but for the first time, allowed a journalist to spend 10 ...
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See and hear Carl Sandburg read "Arches": an excerpt from The Day Carl Sandburg Died.
Pete Seeger brought the song "We Shall Overcome" to the forefront of causes for American workers in the 1940s and later to the Civil Rights Movement in the 50s and 60s. As a singer and songwriter, his songs have always been about we, the people. ...
Carl Sandburg was a tall tale. Yes, he was only a man. But, his words were Paul Bunyan; his words were John Henry: impossibly real. The way Sandburg wrote, he gave life to anything and everything around him: from mountains to oceans, from prairies to ...
An exploration of the Carl Sandburg Archive from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
Follow Carl Sandburg to Rootabaga Country: an excerpt from ‘The Day Carl Sandburg Died.’
See and hear Carl Sandburg's Chicago in a scene from The Day Carl Sandburg Died. It's a city that's the archetype of America: where we all come from. And, that's what came through in Sandburg's work from when he first wrote "Chicago" and published it ...
See and hear Paul Bonesteel, writer, director and editor of 'The Day Carl Sandburg Died,' talk about how the film was made: the process, the characters, the interviews, and the history.
The late and great Norman Corwin was from the generation after Carl Sandburg's. Writing for radio in the 1930s and 40s, Corwin's broadcast titles included, "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas," a drama entirely in rhyming verse in which demons and historical figures from Hell tried ...
The life and times of Carl Sandburg as told by Sandburg biographer, Penelope Niven.
