Carl Clinton Van Doren
1885 - 1950
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Biography
Carl Clinton Van Doren was an American critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. He was born in 1885 and received his Ph.D. in literature from Columbia University. Van Doren taught at several universities and was known for his critical writings on notable American authors. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1939 for his work on Benjamin Franklin.
Famous Quotes (5)
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A good biography is a symphony in royal blue.
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
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The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things.
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One opens the first page of a book and opens the last page. But that journey alone is incomplete.
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Persian art is a parable of infinity.