Dorothy Graffe Van Doren
Dorothy Graffe (May 2, 1896 - February 21, 1993) was an American novelist.
In 1922 she married Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Van Doren. Their eldest son Charles Van Doren became famous after winning the rigged game show Twenty-One. She was played by actress Elizabeth Wilson in the film dramatizing the ensuing scandal, Quiz Show.
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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)
“Less is more.”
—Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (1886–1969)
“But I am here,
And they are far, and time is old.
Within my dream the grass is cold;
The legs and locked; the sky is dead.”
—Mark Van Doren (1894–1973)