Sandburg was for the most part an unknown author to the literary world when, in 1914, a large amount of his work was appeared in the nationally circulated Poetry magazine. Then, two years later his first book Chicago Poems was published, and the thirty-eight-year-old author found himself becoming one of the best poets to ever live. He had researched and wrote for over three years, producing a two-volume biography for adults. When he had wrote Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, which was published in 1926, it was his first financial success he had ever had. After that, he then moved to a different house on the Michigan dunes where he devoted the next several years to completing four other volumes. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, was one of
