| Carl Van Doren AKA Carl Clinton Van Doren Born: 10-Sep-1885
Birthplace: Hope, IL
Died: 18-Jul-1950
Location of death: Torrington, CT
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The American Novel Brother: Mark Van Doren (poet and author, b. 1894, d. 1972)
Father: Charles Van Doren
Mother: Dora Butz
Wife: Irita Bradford (div.)
Wife: Jean Wright (div.)
University: AB, University of Illinois (1907)
University: PhD, Columbia University (1911)
The Nation Literary Editor 1919-22
Century Magazine Literary Editor 1922-5
Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1939 for Benjamin Franklin
Author of books:
The American Novel (1921, nonfiction)
Contemporary American Novelists (1922, nonfiction)
American and British Literature Since 1890 (1925, nonfiction, with Mark Van Doren)
What Is American Literature? (1935, nonfiction)
Three Worlds (1936, memoir)
Benjamin Franklin (1938, biography)
The Great Rehearsal (1948, nonfiction)
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