Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. He was the father of 1950s quiz show scandals figure Charles Van Doren.

Van Doren was born in Hope, Vermilion County, Illinois. The son of a country doctor, he was raised on his family's farm in eastern Illinois. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1914 and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1920. He stayed at Columbia University, teaching English there from 1920 to 1959.

Van Doren was married to Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, a novelist and writer. His elder brother Carl Van Doren also became an academic, with whom he collaborated frequently.

He died in Torrington, Connecticut.

Publications

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Mark Van Doren

• American and British Literature since 1890 (1939), co-written with Carl Van Doren
• Collected Poems, 1922–1938 (1939) (Winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry)
• Liberal Education (1943)
• The Noble Voice (1946), collected lectures on poetry
• The Last Days of Lincoln (1959), play
• Morning Worship and Other Poems (1959)