| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Van Doren, Carl Clinton |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Van Dor·en |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  v n dôr  n, d r- |
| DATES: | 1885–1950 |
| American literary critic, editor, and writer whose biography of Benjamin Franklin (1938) won a Pulitzer Prize. His brother Mark (1894–1972), a prolific writer and critic, is best known for his poetry, including That Shining Place (1969).
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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