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  1. Dorothy Van Doren - Wikipedia. Dorothy Graffe Van Doren (May 2, 1896 – February 21, 1993) was an American writer and editor. Life and career. Dorothy Graffe was born in 1896 in San Francisco, California, and grew up in New York, the daughter of Frances Rosette (Lane) and George Graffe, a newsman.

  2. Feb 23, 1993 · Dorothy Van Doren, author, editor and widow of the poet and critic Mark Van Doren, died on Sunday at the Sharon Hospital in Sharon, Conn., where she lived. She was 96.

  3. Dorothy Van Doren writes beguilingly about the summers she and husband Mark Van Doren led at the Connecticut farm they purchased as newlyweds in the early 20th century. First published in 1950, A Country Wife deals with gentle joys (and occasional mishaps) during the Van Dorens' quarter century of married life up to that date.

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  4. Dorothy Van Doren is the author of The Country Wife (3.68 avg rating, 19 ratings, 8 reviews, published 1950), The Professor and I (4.00 avg rating, 5 rat...

  5. Jun 24, 2020 · Summer is the highlight of the year for Dorothy, her husband Mark Van Doren (the critic and poet), and their two sons. She gardens, endures her husband’s carpentry projects, gets scratched-up picking blackberries, learns to eat puffballs, cans vegetables, and entertains guests (some welcome, some not).

  6. First published in 1950, A Country Wife deals with gentle joys (and occasional mishaps) during the Van Dorens' quarter century of married life up to that date. Van Doren's writing is always straightforward and personable, always insightful, often funny.

  7. Feb 26, 1993 · Dorothy Van Doren, 96, author, editor and widow of the poet and critic, Mark Van Doren, passed away on Sunday, 26 February 1993, due to pneumonia at the Sharon Hospital, Sharon, Connecticut, where she lived.

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