Carl Van Doren
Carl Clinton Van Doren was an American critic and biographer. He was the brother of critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and the uncle of Charles Van Doren.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Hope
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana–ChampaignUIUC College of Media
- Awards
- 🏆 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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Trending topics shown first"Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the…"
"There is no trustworthy evidence as to a god's absolute existence."
"The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed ove…"
"Though he knows that knowledge is imperfect, he trusts it alone. If he takes, therefore, the less delight in metaphysics, he takes the more in physics."
"It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it."
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Timeline
1885
Born
Birth1950
Died
Death
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