Mark Van Doren, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mark Van Doren

American poet and literary critic

Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1894

Place of Birth: Vermilion County, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 10-Dec-1972

Profession: writer, poet, professor, university teacher, journalist, film critic, literary critic, autobiographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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.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 (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).



Alternative names	Doris U. Jaeger
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	29 May 1882	28 August 1934
Location of birth/death	New York City	New York City
Work period	1918 - 1934
Work location	Southern Highlands, United States of America
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