Charles Van Doren

Writer, Author

1926 –

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Who is Charles Van Doren?

Charles Lincoln Van Doren is an American intellectual, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959 he confessed before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the show Twenty One.

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Born
Feb 12, 1926
New York City
Also known as
  • Charles Lincoln Van Doren
Parents
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Columbia University
  • St. John's College, U.S.
  • The High School of Music & Art
  • University of Cambridge
Employment
  • Columbia University
Lived in
  • New York City

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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