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The Poet and the Sailor

The Story of My Friendship with Carl Sandburg

The Poet and the Sailor( )
Author: Dodson, Kenneth
Editor: Dodson, Richard
Contribution by: Sandburg, Carl
Foreword by: Niven, Penelope
ISBN:978-0-252-03127-4
Publication Date:Jun 2007
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $39.00
Book Description:

Carl Sandburg first encountered Kenneth Dodson through a letter written at sea during World War II. Though Dodson wrote the letter to his wife, Letha, Sandburg read it in tears and told her, "I've got to meet this man. Composed primarily of their correspondence that continued until Sandburg's death in 1967, The Poet and the Sailor is a chronicle ......

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Dodson, Kenneth (Author)
Penelope Niven received a bachelor's degree from Greensboro College and a master's degree in English from Wake Forest University. She wrote several books during her lifetime including Carl Sandburg: A Biography, Steichen: A Biography, Thornton Wilder: A Life, and Swimming Lessons. She co-wrote Voices and Silences with James Earl Jones. She won the International Reading Association Prize for Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet in 2003 and the North Carolina Award in Literature. She was the writer-in-residence at Salem College for 12 years. She died on August 29, 2014 at the age of 75.

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