\"Pulitzer Prize\" Carl Van Doren Cut Signature For Sale

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\"Pulitzer Prize\" Carl Van Doren Cut Signature:
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Up for sale "Biographer" Carl Van Doren Clipped Signature. 

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Carl

Clinton Van Doren (September

10, 1885 – July 18, 1950) was an American critic and

biographer. He was the brother of critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and the uncle of Charles Van Doren. He won the 1939 Pulitzer

Prize for Biography or Van Doren was born on September 10, 1885 in Hope, Vermilion County, Illinois, the son of Eudora Ann (Butz) and Charles Lucius Van

Doren, a country doctor. He was raised on the family farm. He earned a bachelor

of arts from the University

of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1907 and a doctorate

from Columbia University in

1911 and continued to teach there until 1930. He was a world federalist and once said, "It is obvious that

no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world

without it". In 1939, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

or Autobiography for Benjamin Franklin. Van

Doren's study The American Novel, published in 1921, is generally

credited with helping to re-establish Herman Melville's critical status as first-rate literary

master. He was book section editor for The Nation from 1920 to 1922. From 1912 to

1935, Van Doren was married to Irita Bradford, editor of

the New York Herald Tribune book

review. He married Jean Wright Gorman in 1939, but divorced in 1945. He worked

closely with Howard Henry Peckham on

Van Doren's Secret History of the American Revolution (1941),

editing documents from the Clinton Papers that revealed Benedict Arnold's treason. Van Doren died in Torrington, Connecticut on

July 18, 1950. A residence hall at the University

of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is named after Carl Clinton Van

Doren. 

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