Van Doren, Charles, 1926-2019

found: Webster's American biographies, c1984:CIP t.p. (Charles Van Doren) book title page (Charles Van Doren)

found: Wikipedia, 1 March 2018(Charles Van Doren. Charles Lincoln Van Doren (born February 12, 1926) is an American academic, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s)

found: LC database, Apr. 11, 2019(heading: Van Doren, Charles, 1926- ; cross-reference from Clark, Allen P., 1926- [name not found in LC bibliographic records])

found: New York times WWW site, viewed Apr. 11, 2019(in obituary published Apr. 10: Charles Van Doren; b. Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Feb. 12, 1926, Manhattan; d. Tuesday [Apr. 9, 2019], Canaan, Conn., aged 93; had lived in Cornwall, Conn.; for many years had a second home in Cortona, Italy; Columbia University English instructor and a member of a distinguished literary family who confessed to Congress and a disillusioned nation in 1959 that his performances on a television quiz show had been rigged; lost his job at Columbia; became an editor and a pseudonymous writer, took a job with Encyclopaedia Britannica and moved to its Chicago headquarters in 1965; eventually became a vice president in charge of the editorial department and edited, wrote and co-wrote dozens of books, some with Mortimer J. Adler; retired in 1982)