Everything about Carl Van Doren totally explained
Carl Clinton Van Doren (
September 10,
1885 -
July 18,
1950) was a
U.S. critic and
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. He was the brother of
Mark Van Doren.
Born in Hope,
Vermilion County,
Illinois, Van Doren was the son of a country doctor and was raised on the family farm. He earned a bachelor of arts from the
University of Illinois in 1907 and a doctorate from
Columbia University in 1911 and continued to teach there until
1930. He was a
world federalist and once said, "It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it"
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From 1912 to
1935, Van Doren was married to
Irita Bradford Van Doren, editor of the
New York Herald Tribune book review. He married Jean Wright Gorman Van Doren in 1939, but divorced in 1945.
Van Doren died in
Torrington, Connecticut.
A residence hall at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is named after Carl Clinton Van Doren.
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