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MARK VAN DOREN - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 09/09/1948 - HFSID 288111

He pens a note for an admirer on this 5x3 card, dated 1948 Autograph Note Signed: "For Margaret Cartwright/with warmest regards/Mark Van Doren/9-9-48", 5x3 card.

Price: $280.00

Condition: Fine condition
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MARK VAN DOREN
He pens a note for an admirer on this 5x3 card, dated 1948
Autograph Note Signed: "For Margaret Cartwright/with warmest regards/Mark Van Doren/9-9-48", 5x3 card. Poet, playwright and literary critic Mark Van Doren (1894-1972) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1940 for his Collected Poems. He taught at Columbia for nearly forty years, and was a staunch advocate of liberal education and of the "great books" movement. Van Doren wrote literary studies of Shakespeare and Hawthorne, among others. He was the brother of Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Carl Van Doren, and the father of Charles Van Doren, caught in the rigged quiz show scandals of 1959.  Lightly toned. Irregularly cut edges. Fine condition.

 

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