Carl Clinton Van Doren Biography

Carl Clinton Van Doren, Critic

Attr: Louis Edward Nollau

Known as	Carl Van Doren
Occup.	Critic
From	USA
Born	September 10, 1885 Hope, Illinois, USA
Died	July 18, 1950 Torrington, Connecticut, USA
Aged	64 years

Early Life and Education And Learning
Carl Clinton Van Doren was born on September 10, 1885, in Hope, Illinois, USA. He was the 3rd child of 5 birthed to Charles as well as Esther (Terpenning) Van Doren. His sibling, Mark Van Doren, would also come to be an influential literary critic as well as author. The family was of Dutch descent, mapping their roots back to the very early inhabitants of New Netherlands in the 17th century.

Carl matured in a house that encouraged intellectual quest and grew a deep love for literary works. In 1903, Carl finished from Hope Township High School and also took place to participate in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1907 and also quickly signed up in Columbia University in New York City to pursue a PhD in English literary works. He finished his doctorate in 1911.

Throughout his college years, Carl was an exceptional student as well as a devoted writer, establishing his abilities as a literary critic and also editor. He got numerous accolades for his ability as well as began making links with figures that would certainly later on become popular in the literary and academic worlds.

Expert Career as well as Accomplishments
Carl Van Doren began his scholastic profession at Columbia University, where he began as a teacher of English in 1911. His teaching job extended greater than a decade, with Carl increasing to the rank of teacher by 1920. Along with working at Columbia, Carl became the literary editor of The Nation publication in 1919, a position he held till 1922.

In 1920, Van Doren left Columbia University to concentrate on his composing profession. For the following a number of years, Carl functioned as a literary critic, reviewer, and adding editor for different publications, such as The Century, Harper's, and The New York Evening Post. His insightful discourse as well as evaluations of contemporary literary works contributed to forming the literary taste of his time and also earned him a trustworthy name in literary circles.

Van Doren's initial book, "The American Novel", was published in 1921. It gave a comprehensive evaluation of the advancement of the American story from the late 18th century to the very early 20th century. The book was popular and helped establish Carl's track record as a leading literary critic and also historian.

In 1924, Carl Van Doren joined the team of the Encyclopedia Britannica as an associate editor, at some point ending up being a managing editor in 1932. He likewise released bios of renowned literary and historical figures, such as Benjamin Franklin, Henry David Thoreau, and also Thomas Jefferson. Amongst his most well-known jobs is his biography of Franklin, labelled "Benjamin Franklin", which won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

Aside from his critical writings, Carl was likewise a renowned biographer who had a special capability to portray his subjects with deepness and accuracy. His biographical works consist of "Mutiny in January" (1944), about Aaron Burr's test for treason, and "The Great Rehearsal" (1948), which concentrated on the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

Personal Life as well as Relationships
In 1911, Carl Van Doren wed Irita Bradford, that was likewise a writer, translator, and also an accomplished violinist. The pair had 3 youngsters: Charles, John, and Barbara. Carl motivated his children to become involved in literary and also creative searches from a very early age, instilling in them the interest for understanding and discovering that he brought throughout his life.

Throughout his job, Carl was carefully connected with his brother, Mark Van Doren, who was likewise a valued critic, poet, as well as academic. The two shared several typical rate of interests as well as typically exchanged suggestions about literary works, typically influencing each various other's job.

Carl Van Doren also preserved close relationships with several prominent literary figures, including H.L. Mencken, George Santayana, as well as Sinclair Lewis. He was known to be a charming and also appealing conversationalist, which made him a prominent figure in the New York literary scene.

Later Years as well as Death
In the mid-20th century, Carl Van Doren remained to work on various literary and historic tasks. He continued to be connected with the Encyclopedia Britannica and also numerous magazines for which he had actually formerly functioned as an editor as well as factor.

On July 18, 1950, Carl Clinton Van Doren died in his home in Torrington, Connecticut, at the age of 64. His contributions to American literary works and objection have actually been widely identified, and he continues to be a renowned as well as highly regarded figure in the globe of literary works.

Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Carl.

Related authors: Benjamin Franklin (Politician), Thomas Jefferson (President), Henry David Thoreau (Author), George Santayana (Philosopher), Mark Van Doren (Poet), Sinclair Lewis (Novelist), Aaron Burr (Politician)

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12 Famous quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren

"The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity"

"IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction"

"In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked"

"The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure"

"Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained"

"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience"

"Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit"

"Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to"

"Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to"

"The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers"

"Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel"

"The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies"