Mark Van Doren Born: 13-Jun-1894 Birthplace: Hope, IL Died: 10-Dec-1972 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: Poet, Author, Critic Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Happy Critic Father: Charles Lucius Van Doren Mother: Dora Ann Butz Brother: Carl Van Doren (author, b. 1885, d. 1950) Wife: Dorothy Graffe (novelist, m. 1922, two sons) Son: Charles Van Doren (TV personality, b. 12-Feb-1926) Son: John
University: BA, University of Illinois (1914) University: MA, University of Illinois (1915) University: PhD, Columbia University (1920) Professor: English, Columbia University (1920-59)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1940 for Collected Poems Emerson Thoreau Medal 1963 The Nation Literary Editor (1924-28)
Author of books:
The Poetry of John Dryden (1920, nonfiction)
Spring Thunder (1924, poetry)
American and British Literature Since 1890 (1925, criticism)
Jonathan Gentry (1931, poetry)
The Transients (1935, novel)
Winter Diary (1935, poetry)
Shakespeare (1939)
Collected Poems (1939, poetry)
Windless Cabins (1940, novel)
The Mayfield Deer (1941, poetry)
Tilda (1943, novel)
The Noble Voice (1946)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949)
Introduction to Poetry (1951)
The Last Days of Lincoln (1959, poetry)
The Happy Critic (1961)
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