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Van Doren, Charles, 1926-2019 (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Van Doren, Charles, 1926-2019
Used for/see from:
  • Clark, Allen P., 1926-2019
  • Doren, Charles van, 1926-2019

Growing up in the great depression, 1963: title page (Charles Van Doren)

Great treasury of Western thought, 1977: title page (Charles Van Doren)

Webster's American biographies, c1984: CIP t.p. (Charles Van Doren) book title page (Charles Van Doren)

Wikipedia, 1 March 2018 (Charles Van Doren. Charles Lincoln Van Doren (born February 12, 1926) is an American academic, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s)

LC database, Apr. 11, 2019 (heading: Van Doren, Charles, 1926- ; cross-reference from Clark, Allen P., 1926- [name not found in LC bibliographic records])

New York times WWW site, viewed Apr. 11, 2019 (in obituary published Apr. 10: Charles Van Doren; b. Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Feb. 12, 1926, Manhattan; d. Tuesday [Apr. 9, 2019], Canaan, Conn., aged 93; had lived in Cornwall, Conn.; for many years had a second home in Cortona, Italy; Columbia University English instructor and a member of a distinguished literary family who confessed to Congress and a disillusioned nation in 1959 that his performances on a television quiz show had been rigged; lost his job at Columbia; became an editor and a pseudonymous writer, took a job with Encyclopaedia Britannica and moved to its Chicago headquarters in 1965; eventually became a vice president in charge of the editorial department and edited, wrote and co-wrote dozens of books, some with Mortimer J. Adler; retired in 1982)

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