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, dorothy, 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)
“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)
“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
“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)