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December 10, 1972 (78 years old)
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Gemini
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Mark Van Doren
Mark Van Doren 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, and its film critic, 1935 to 1938. He won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Collected Poems 1922–1938. Amongst his other notable works, many published in The Kenyon Review, include a collaboration with brother Carl Van Doren, American and British Literature since 1890; critical studies, The Poetry of John Dryden, Shakespeare, The Noble Voice and Nathaniel Hawthorne; collections of poems including Jonathan Gentry; stories; and the verse play The Last Days of Lincoln.
BornJune 13, 1894, Hope, Vermilion County, Illinois
DiedDecember 10, 1972, Torrington, Connecticut
Occupationpoet, critic, teacher
Alma materUniversity of Illinois, Columbia University
Notable worksShakespeare (1939), A Liberal Education (1943)
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1940 for Collected Poems 1922–1938, Academy of American Poets' Fellowship (1967)
SpouseDorothy Van Doren
ChildrenCharles Van Doren, John Van Doren
RelativesCarl Van Doren (brother)

About Mark Van Doren

Poet Mark Van Doren was born in Illinois, United States on June 13, 1894. He dies at the age of 78, on December 10, 1972.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, author, and historian's most well-known books are A Liberal Education and Collected Poems: 1922-1938. In 1967, he was awarded a Fellowship by the Academy of American Poets.

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Mark Van Doren before becoming famous

Mark Van Doren was born in the Zodiac sign Gemini (The Twins), and 1894 is also the year of Horse (馬) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He attended Columbia University as well as the University of Illinois. Spring Thunder, his first poetry collection, was published in 1924.

Achievement of Mark Van Doren

He frequently addressed literature on the CBS radio show"Invitation to Learning".

Mark Van Doren's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He and his wife, Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, have two children.

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Mark Van Doren Collabed with

The United States Poet Laureate, Poet Allen Tate, maintained a long-running written correspondence with him.

Allen Tate (1899 - 1979) (Poet)
Allen Tate (1899 - 1979)

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