Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950

Contains correspondence from Irita Van Doren, wife of Carl Van Doren.

From the description of Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1927-1934. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155895031

American editor, author, and professor at Columbia University.

From the description of Typed letters signed (4) : New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1935-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868256

• 1885: Born in Hope, Illinois
• 1907: A.B. Illinois
• 1911: Ph.D. Columbia

• 1911 - 1930 : professor, English Dept., Columbia University
• 1917 - 1921 : managing editor of The Cambridge History of American Literature
• 1919 - 1922 : literary editor of The Nation
• 1922 - 1925 : literary editor of The Century Magazine
• 1926 - 1934 : editor of The Literary Guild

• 1921: The American Novel
• 1922: Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920
• 1923: The Roving Critic
• 1924: Many Minds
• 1925: Other Provinces and American and British Literature Since 1890 (with Mark Van Doren)
• 1926: The Ninth Wave
• 1930: Swift
• 1933: Sinclair Lewis and American Literature: An Introduction
• undated: American Literature: An Introduction
• 1935: And Anthology of World Prose (editor)
• 1936: Three Worlds (autobiography)
• 1938: Benjamin Franklin (Pulitzer Prize for American biography, 1939)
• 1939: An Illinois Boyhood
• 1941: Secret History of the American Revolution
• 1943: Mutiny in January
• 1946: American Scriptures (with Carl Carmer)
• 1948: The Great Rehearsal
• 1950: Jane Mecom, the Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin

Van Doren Family

Parents: Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Van Doren

Brothers: Frank, Guy, Mark, Paul

Marriages: Irita

daughters: Anne (Mrs. Jerome D. Ross), Barbara (Mrs. Spencer Klaw), Margaret (Mrs. Tom Bevans), Jean (Wright)

From the guide to the Carl Van Doren Papers, 1900-1950, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections)