Record ID:
36077116 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50045763
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1926-02-12
  • Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Death:
  • 2019-04-09
  • Canaan (Conn.)
Associated with:
  • United States
Lived/located in:
  • Chicago (Ill.) Cornwall (Conn.) Cortona (Italy)
Occupations:
  • English teachers College teachers Editors Authors Television quiz show contestants
Used for:
  • Clark, Allen P., 1926-2019
  • Doren, Charles van, 1926-2019
Notes:
  • 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)
Local system number:
  • abv02884780
  • 000001083301
  • (AuPaJTL)174188
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC UkOxU DLC