Mark Van Doren
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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]
Mark Van Doren | |
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Born | (1894-06-13)June 13, 1894 Hope, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | December 10, 1972(1972-12-10) (aged 78) Torrington, Connecticut, U.S. |
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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) |
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).