Charles Van Doren
American writer and editor
Died when: 93 years 56 days (1117 months)Star 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 U.S.Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the NBC quiz 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.
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