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Benjamin Franklin is a non-fiction biography written by literary critic and biographer Carl Van Doren.The book was originally published in 1938 by Viking Press; it is an authoritative telling of Franklin's life that makes heavy use of his own autobiography and his later papers and essays.
Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10, 1885 – July 18, 1950) was an American critic and biographer. He was the brother of critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and the uncle of Charles Van Doren . He won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Benjamin Franklin .
Benjamin Franklin. A Biography in Woodcuts. New York. Van Doren, Carl (1920). Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards selections from their writings. Charles Scribner's sons, New York, Chicago, Boston. —— (1938). Benjamin Franklin. New York, Garden City Publishing Company. (Also published in 1948, 1966, 1987 and 1991)
While at Columbia, she met fellow grad student Carl Van Doren, who was studying politics and government. He was a member of the literary Van Doren family, and later won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Benjamin Franklin. They married in 1912, and had three daughters together. They divorced in 1935.
Carl Van Doren: Benjamin Franklin: 1940: Ray Stannard Baker: Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters. Vols. VII and VIII: 1941: Ola Elizabeth Winslow: Jonathan Edwards, 1703–1758: a biography: 1942: Forrest Wilson: Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: 1943: Samuel Eliot Morison: Admiral of the Ocean Sea: 1944: Carleton Mabee
The Book of My Life: 1576 Michel de Montaigne: Of the Education of Children: 1580 Abraham Cowley: Of Myself: 1668 Colley Cibber: An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Written by Himself: 1740 Voltaire: Mémoires pour servir à la vie de M. de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même: 1759 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Confessions: 1770 Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin thought that slavery was "an atrocious debasement of human nature" and "a source of serious evils." In 1787, Franklin and Benjamin Rush helped write a new constitution for the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, [264] and that same year Franklin became president of the organization. [265]
In 1936, Mott collaborated with Chester E. Jorgenson, Instructor in English at the University of Iowa to publish Benjamin Franklin: Representative Selections, With Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes for the American Book Company as part of the American Writers Series. [12] On April 1, 1937, Carl Van Doren wrote to Mr. Mott: