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.
