text: An author described life with his Swedish immigrant parents in a city in this state in the memoir
full_question: An author described life with his Swedish immigrant parents in a city in this state in the memoir Always the Young Strangers. Edmund Wilson’s Patriotic Gore mocks a popular two-volume biography of a man from this state whose second volume, The War Years, won the the 1940 Pulitzer. A place in this state is told “I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys” in a poem that calls it a “Tool Maker,” “Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads,” and “Hog Butcher for the World.” For 10 points, Carl Sandburg wrote a biography of what state’s native son Abraham Lincoln?
first_sentence: An author described life with his Swedish immigrant parents in a city in this state in the memoir