Dorothy Graffe Van Doren - Cornwall, CT
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N 41° 53.844 W 073° 16.889
18T E 642554 N 4639812
The grave of editor and author Dorothy Graffe Van Doren is located in Cornwall Hollow Cemetery on Cornwall Hollow Road in Cornwall, CT.
Waymark Code: WMX4AG
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 11/25/2017
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The grave of Dorothy Graffe Van Doren and her husband Mark Van Doren is marked by a 3' high, lichen covered, granite headstone with a curved top which is inscribed:
MARK
VAN DOREN
JUNE 13, 1894
DEC. 10, 1972
DOROTHY
GRAFFE
HIS WIFE
MAY 2, 1896
FEB. 21, 1993
Dorothy Graffe was born in San Franscisco on May 2, 1896. She was raised and educated in New York City where she graduated from Barnard College in 1918. In 1922 she married the poet and author Mark Van Doren.
Dorothy Graffe (Van Doren) was the editor of The Nation magazine and the head of the English desk at the United States Office of War Information during World War II. She had a career as an author. She the author of five novels and, starting in 1950, she published three autobiographies.
Books by Dorothy Graffe Van Doren:
Strangers,1926.
Flowering Quince.1928.
Brother and Brother, 1930.
Those First Affections, 1938.
Dacey Hamilton, 1942.
The Country Wife, 1950.
The Professor and I, 1959.
Men, Women and Cats, 1962.