Van Doren, Carl [Clinton]
Van Doren, Carl [Clinton]( 1885–1950),professor at Columbia (1911–34), and literary editor of The Nation (1919–22) and The Century (1922–25), whose critical works include The American Novel (1921, revised 1940), Contemporary American Novelists, 1900–1920 (1922), James Branch Cabell (1925), Swift (1930), Sinclair Lewis (1933), and managing editorship of the Cambridge History of American Literature (4 vols., 1917–20). Studies of American history include Benjamin Franklin (1938, Pulitzer Prize), a biography; Secret History of the American Revolution (1941); Mutiny in January (1943), about an incident in the Continental army in 1780–81; The Great Rehearsal (1948), about “the making and ratifying of the Constitution”; and Jane Mecom (1950), a life of Franklin's sister. Three Worlds (1936) is his autobiography. Mark Van Doren was his...
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