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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

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.

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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