Dorothy Graffe Van Doren

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:

    “For him nor deep nor hill there is,
    But all’s one level plain he hunts for flowers.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    “For him nor deep nor hill there is,
    But all’s one level plain he hunts for flowers.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    “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)