Helga Sandburg

Born: 11/24/1918   Maywood
Died: 01/26/2014
Parents: Carl and Lilian Sandburg
Spouse: Joseph Thoman (1st) George Crile, Jr. (a surgeon), (3rd)
Children: (1st) Dr. John Carl Steichen, Paula Steichen Polega
Address(es):
Last known address:
Cleveland Heights , OH

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Age of the Flower: Poems Poetry Adult Kent,Ohio : Kent State University Press 1994
"...Where Love Begins" Poetry Children New York : Donald I. Fine 1989
A Great and Glorious Romance: The Story of Carl Sandburg and Lilian Steichen Biography , Michigan Adult New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1978
Children and Lovers: 15 Stories Fiction , Short Stories Adult New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976
Anna and the Baby Buzzard Picture Book Children New York : Dutton 1970
To a New Husband Poetry Adult New York : World Publishing Company 1970
Above and Below
- American Wilderness Series With George Crile, Jr.
Non Fiction Children New York : McGraw-Hill American Wilderness Series 1969
The Wizard's Child Fiction Adult New York: The Dial Press 1967
Wide Horizons, Book II
- Contributor
Non Fiction Children Chicago : Scott Foresman 1966
Bo and the Old Donkey Picture Book Children New York: The Dial Press 1965
The Unicorns Poetry Adult New York : Dial Press 1965
Gingerbread
- Companion story ot Blueberry. Kristin tries to convince her family that she should keep Bluebery's foal, Gingerbread, who is blind. Set in Southwestern Michigan near Lake Michigan.
Fiction , Michigan Children , Teen New York: The Dial Press 1964
Blueberry
- Fourteen-year-old Kristin convinces her parents that she is capable of caring for a horse, Blueberry. Set in southwestern Michigan on Lake Michigan.
Fiction , Michigan Children , Teen New York : The Dial Press 1963
Sweet Music : A Book of Family Songs and Reminiscence Non Fiction Adult , Teen New York : The Dial Press 1963
Joel and the Wild Goose
- Adapted for the stage by Diane Leslie
Picture Book Children New York : The Dial Press 1963
Uninhibited Treasury of Erotic Poetry
- Included in anthology
Poetry Adult New York : Dial 1963
The Owl's Roost
- The resort beaches of Lake Michigan provide the setting and atmosphere for this story of two summers in the lives of Dr. Bill Olson, his attractive wife, Elizabeth, and their two children. Their associations with friends and neighbors, glimpse into another facet of life in Michigan.
Fiction , Michigan Adult New York: The Dial Press 1962
Measure My Love
- A farm family in Southwestern Michigan with its interpersonal relationships and many peculiarities is the framework for this study of the strength of a woman's love. Faith Bain clings to her family and her beloved farm through the storm of adverse situations created by her circle of relatives and her own stubborn nature.
Fiction , Michigan Adult New York : McDowell, Obolensky 1959
O. Henry Prize Stories
- Work Anthologized
Fiction New York : Doubleday 1959
The Wheel of Earth
- The story of Ellen Gaddy whose courage fortified by innocence make her one of the most appealing and refreshing heroines of current fiction. it is also the story of two men who loved her; of her tyrannical father, Anton Gaddy, whose twisted loves and implacable hates devoured those around him; of the warm and generous Wasilewski family who gave Ellen her first glimpse of a freer, happier way of life.
Fiction Adult New York : McDowell, Obolensky 1958
- Short stories, poems, articles in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, Harpers, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Seventeen, Redbook, etc Fiction Children
What is the aim or goal of your writing: Lived much of her childhood at Harbert in Michigan dune country, used settings in Blueberry, and others. She quotes a line from a poem which reads "Then I eyed the world with all delight," which describes her point of view. Her interest in country life was born in the dune country. Here she raised animals, collected flowers, leaves, and butterflies. She ran a dog sled, swam her horses in Lake Michigan, and lived a rich and varied life.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Attended University of Minnesota Minneapolis , MN

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Lecturer 1964
Conducted seminars in Great Britain, Europe, as an American specialist State Department's Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs 1961
Administrative Assistant for The Papers of Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Foundation Washington 1958 -1959
Freelance Writer 1957
Secretary in Manuscripts Division and for The Keeper of the Collections Library of Congress Washington 1952 -1956
Dairy goat breeder with her mother 1944 -1951
Secretary to her father, Carl Sandburg
- As adolescent and adult

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