Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10, 1885 - July 18, 1950) was a U.S. critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. He was the brother of Mark Van Doren.

Born in Hope, Vermilion County, Illinois, Van Doren was the son of a country doctor and was raised on the family farm. He earned a doctorate from Columbia University in 1911 and continued to teach there until 1930. He was a world federalist and once said, "It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it"[1].

Van Doren died in Torrington, Connecticut on July 18, 1950.

Publications

• American and British Literature since 1890 (1939), co-written with Mark Van Doren
• Benjamin Franklin (1939), winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

References

• Quotations database, World Beyond Borders.