December 10, 1972(1972-12-10) (aged 78) Torrington, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation
Poet
critic
teacher
Education
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Notable works
Shakespeare (1939) A Liberal Education (1943)
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1940 for Collected Poems 1922–1938 Academy of American Poets' Fellowship (1967)
Spouse
Dorothy Van Doren
Children
2, including Charles Van Doren
Relatives
Carl Van Doren (brother) Adam Van Doren (grandson)
Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, John Berryman, Whittaker Chambers, and Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He was literary editor of The Nation, in New York City (1924–1928), and its film critic, 1935 to 1938.[1]
He won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Collected Poems 1922–1938. Amongst his other notable works, many published in The Kenyon Review,[2] include a collaboration with brother Carl Van Doren, American and British Literature since 1890 (1939); critical studies, The Poetry of John Dryden (1920), Shakespeare (1939), The Noble Voice (1945) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949); collections of poems including Jonathan Gentry (1931); stories; and the verse play The Last Days of Lincoln (1959).
^Mark Van Doren Encyclopædia Britannica
^"History" Archived December 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine the Kenyon Review Web site, accessed January 26, 2007
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