| LC control no. | n 50045763 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Van Doren, Charles, 1926-2019 |
| Variant(s) | Clark, Allen P., 1926-2019 Doren, Charles van, 1926-2019 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Chicago (Ill.) Cornwall (Conn.) Cortona (Italy) |
| Birth date | 1926-02-12 |
| Death date | 2019-04-09 |
| Place of birth | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Canaan (Conn.) |
| Affiliation | Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Institute for Philosophical Research (Chicago, Ill.) Columbia University |
| Profession or occupation | English teachers College teachers Editors Authors Television quiz show contestants |
| Found in | 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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