in English (1955), both at Columbia University.
John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, as well as an M.A. He graduated from the High School of Music & Art in New York, and earned a B.A. in 1959, becoming a vice-president and writing and editing many books before retiring in 1982.īackground Charles Van Doren in 1957, with his parents Dorothy and Mark Van DorenĬharles Van Doren was born in New York City, the elder son of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and novelist Dorothy Van Doren (née Graffe), and a nephew of critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Carl Van Doren. Terminated by NBC, he joined Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the NBC quiz show Twenty-One. Charles Lincoln Van Doren (February 12, 1926 – April 9, 2019) was an American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s.
