Charles Van Doren, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Van Doren

American academic

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1926

Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, United States

Date of Death: 09-Apr-2019

Profession: biographer, university teacher, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Charles Lincoln Van Doren (February 12, 1926 – April 9, 2019) was an American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s.
In 1959 he testified before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the show Twenty-One.
Terminated by NBC, he joined Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., in 1959, becoming a vice-president and writing and editing many books before retiring in 1982.