| 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
Remains: Buried, Cornwall Hollow Cemetery, Cornwall Hollow, CT
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The American Novel Father: Charles Lucius Van Doren
Mother: Dora Butz
Brother: Mark Van Doren (poet and author, b. 1894, d. 1972)
Wife: Irita Bradford (div.)
Wife: Jean Wright (div.)
University: AB, University of Illinois (1907)
University: PhD, Columbia University (1911)
Century Magazine Literary Editor (1922-25)
The Nation Literary Editor (1919-22)
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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