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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“Long as there’s lunch counters, you can always find work.”
—Mother and Aunts Of Dorothy Allison, U.S. waitresses. As quoted in Skin, ch. 2, by Dorothy Allison (1994)
“[W]ith them we’ll beat little Van, Van, Van is a used up man.”
—State of Indiana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“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)