author
M. C. van Doorn
Known today for the Dutch novel Eduard Kerner, this early-20th-century writer is associated with a warm, readable style and a close eye for childhood, family life, and growing up.
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Eduard Kerner
by M. C. van Doorn
About the author
Very little confirmed biographical information about this author was easy to find in reliable online sources. Project Gutenberg lists M. C. van Doorn as the author of Eduard Kerner, first published in Haarlem by Vincent Loosjes in 1907, and classifies the book as Dutch juvenile fiction.
The surviving record online suggests a writer connected with children's or youth literature in Dutch. Contemporary material preserved by DBNL also links the name M.C. van Oven-van Doorn to authorship, which may indicate a fuller form of the name, but the available sources do not make enough details clear to state more with confidence.
What can be said safely is that Eduard Kerner has lasted long enough to be digitized and read anew more than a century after publication. That gives modern listeners a chance to discover a Dutch story shaped by everyday emotion, youthful mischief, and the quiet tensions of family life.