| Mark Van Doren  Born: 13-Jun-1894
Birthplace: Hope, IL
Died: 10-Dec-1972
Location of death: Torrington, CT
Cause of death: unspecified
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)
Jonathan Gentry (1931, poetry)
Winter Diary (1935, poetry)
The Transients (1935, novel)
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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