![]() ![]() ![]() Enright and Freedman were impressed by Van Doren's polite style and telegenic appearance, thinking the youthful Columbia teacher would be the man to defeat their incumbent Twenty-One champion, Herb Stempel, and boost the show's declining ratings as Stempel's reign continued. Van Doren eventually revealed-five decades after his Twenty-One championship and fame, in a surprise 2008 article for The New Yorker-that he did not even own a television set, but had met Freedman through a mutual friend, with Freedman initiating the idea of Van Doren going on television by way of asking what he thought of Tic-Tac-Dough. ![]() He was long believed to have approached producers Dan Enright and Albert Freedman, originally, to appear on Tic-Tac-Dough, another game they produced. Twenty-One was not Van Doren's first game show interest. On November 28, 1956, Van Doren made his first appearance on the NBC quiz show Twenty-One. He was also a student at University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. in English (1955), both at Columbia University. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, as well as an M.A. He graduated from the High School of Music & Art in New York and earned a B.A. 4.3 Freedomland U.S.A.: The Definitive HistoryĬharles Van Doren was born in New York City, the elder son of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and novelist Dorothy Van Doren (née Graffe), and a nephew of critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Carl Van Doren. ![]()
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