Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), who was born in Galesburg, Illinois, wrote in a wide range of genres—poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and history. Much of his writing was based on his own personal experiences traveling around the country and holding a variety of jobs such as barbershop porter, milk truck driver, and wheat harvester. He described these experiences in the autobiography of his younger years, Always the Young Strangers (1953). He focused his interests on the history and folkways of the American people. For example, he published two collections of folk songs, The American Songbag (1927) and The New American Songbag (1950). His poetry often celebrated American people, places, and events, as did his poem "Chicago," which describes the city as "Hog-butcher, Tool-maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads, and Freight-handler to the Nation." Sandburg wrote several biographies of Abraham Lincoln and won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1940.