Van Doren may refer to:
- Carl Clinton Van Doren, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
- Charles Van Doren, a quiz show contestant, professor and Encyclopædia Britannica editor
- Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, an American novelist
- Irita Bradford Van Doren, an American literary figure and editor of the New York Herald Tribune
- Philip Van Doren Stern, an American author and Civil War historian
- Mamie Van Doren, an American actress
- Mark Van Doren, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic
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Famous quotes containing the words van doren, van and/or doren:
“I passed a tomb among green shades
Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)
“I’m a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn’t pay off.”
—Gus Van Sant, U.S. screenwriter, and Dan Yost. Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon)
“Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping
In the river, never heard
Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves
Fling off their iron and cut the green,
Leaving circles new and clean
While overhead the wing-tips whirred.”
—Mark Van Doren (1894–1973)