MARK VAN DOREN - POEM SIGNED - HFSID 313068
Price: $320.00
MARK VAN DOREN
The poet signs his name on a copy of his poem, "Midwife Cat"
Poem signed: "-Mark Van Doren", in black ink, 1 page, 7¾10¼.
Typed text from his poem "Midwife Cat". Poet, author and critic Van
Doren (1894-1973, born in Hope, Illinois) won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize
for Collected Poems, 1922-1938. A teacher at Columbia University from
1920 to1959, Van Doren also wrote novels, short stories, a play (The Last
Days of Lincoln, 1959), critical studies of various authors, including John
Dryden (1920) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1946), an autobiography and memoirs of
his wife, writer and novelist Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, as well as
serving on the staff of "The Nation" (1924-1928; 1935-1938). Van Doren's
literary family also included his brother, Carl, who also taught at
Columbia and with whom he wrote, American and British Literature Since
1890 (1939). Van Doren's son, Charles, also had a claim to fame: he
was the winner of the rigged TV game show Twenty-One. Normal
mailing folds. Crease on bottom right corner. Small stain on top right margin.
Fine condition.
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