• 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...
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    Van Doren was born in New York City, the elder son of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic and professor Mark Van Doren and novelist Dorothy Van Doren...
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    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...
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    Mesa, California, in the 1970s by Mark Van Doren, son of then-President and co-owner James Van Doren, at age 13; Mark's design was a stencil, allowing the...
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    Mamie Van Doren (/ˈmeɪmi væn ˈdɔːrən/; born Joan Lucille Olander; February 6, 1931) is an American actress, singer, model, and sex symbol who rose to...
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  • Mark Van Doren Charles Van Doren (1926–2019), quiz show contestant, professor and Encyclopædia Britannica editor, son of Mark Van Doren Dorothy Van Doren...
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    Dorothy Graffe Van Doren (May 2, 1896 – February 21, 1993) was an American writer and editor. Dorothy Graffe was born in 1896 in San Francisco, California...
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    her husband, John Van Doren, son of quiz show celebrity Charles Van Doren and grandson of Columbia University professor Mark Van Doren at Phillips Academy...
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    Delicate Balance (1973), Henry V (1989), and Hamlet (1990). He portrayed Mark Van Doren in the historical drama Quiz Show (1994), for which he earned a nomination...
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    and often thinks they have read themselves."[better source needed] Mark Van Doren, the Columbia University professor and poet, is quoted by Jim Trelease...
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    Mark Van Doren (1951). The battles of Coxinga: Chikamatsu's puppet play, its background and importance. Taylor's Foreign Press. p. 45. 近松門左衛門; Mark Van...
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    graphic novelist Mark Twain, pen name of American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Van Doren, American poet and literary critic Mark Waid, American...
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    Mark Van Doren Hank Azaria as Albert Freedman Christopher McDonald as Jack Barry Johann Carlo as Toby Stempel Elizabeth Wilson as Dorothy Van Doren Allan...
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  • Documentation. Munchen, Germany: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-598-30170-7. Mark Van Doren in Prize Poems, 1913-1929 page 19 (NY: Charles Boni, 1930): "The Nation...
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    Thunder (1924) - Mark Van Doren State of Love and Trust - W.K. Lawrence Steeple Bush (1947) - Robert Frost The Story-Teller - Mark Van Doren The Strange Islands:...
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    it attractive for year-round and second-home residents. In 1939 poet Mark Van Doren wrote "The Hills of Little Cornwall", in which the seductive beauties...
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  • and was a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he was an emeritus professor. He lived in New York City....
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    Windsor in contrast to the Falstaff portrayed in the two Henry IV plays, Mark Van Doren states: "Only the husk of Falstaff's voice is here." Harold Bloom refers...
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  • won multiple teaching awards from Columbia University, including the Mark Van Doren Award making her the second anthropologist to win the honour. She is...
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  • University in New York City, where he studied with the poet and critic Mark Van Doren. As a student there in the late 1930s, he worked on the college humor...
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  • Delillo, Woody Allen, Louise Erdrich, William Empson, Linda Gregg, Mark Van Doren, Kenneth Burke, and Ha Jin. The magazine's short stories have won more...
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    and the pinioned girl he is guarding". Columbia University scholar Mark Van Doren was highly impressed by the scenes with the girl bound to the tree,...
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    Formalist period in literature, American writers admired Villa's work. Mark Van Doren wrote in reaction to Selected Poems and New that it is "...So natural...
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  • things ... to call [Fear and Desire] arty." Columbia University professor Mark Van Doren sent Kubrick a letter that stated: "The incident of the girl bound to...
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    big at BAFTA Awards". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 June 2021. Brown, Mark (14 February 2011). "Baftas 2011: The King's Speech sweeps the board". The...
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  • Columbia University (Kerouac had also attended Columbia), Mark Van Doren for help, and Van Doren set up an interview with Alfred Kazin, who worked as a scout...
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  • connections in intellectual and cultural circles included Van Wyck Brooks, Rosa Ponselle, Mark Van Doren and Llewelyn Jones. His friendship with Wallace Stevens...
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  • Lectures. During 1940 through 41 he was also a regular panelist, with Mark Van Doren and Huntington Cairns, on the popular CBS radio program Invitation to...
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    Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Claude Rains, and Mark Ruffalo. Nominees are currently determined by single transferable vote within...
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    beginning to write. In fact, according to his Columbia professor and mentor Mark Van Doren, he had outlined much of the work in his journals over the several preceding...
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