Mark Van Doren

About

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, author, and scholar whose best-known works include Collected Poems: 1922-1938 and A Liberal Education. He was the 1967 recipient of an Academy of American Poets Fellowship.

Before Fame

He attended the University of Illinois and Columbia University. He published his first poetry collection, Spring Thunder, in 1924.

Trivia

He frequently discussed literature on the CBS radio program, "Invitation to Learning."

Family Life

With his wife, Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, he had two children.

Associated With

He had a long-lasting written correspondence with United States Poet Laureate Allen Tate.