Irita Bradford Van Doren (March 16, 1891 – December 18, 1966) was an American literary figure and editor of the New York Herald Tribune book review for 37 years.

While at Columbia, she met fellow grad student Carl Van Doren, who was studying politics and government.

He was a member of the literary Van Doren family, and later won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Benjamin Franklin.

She also hosted the popular Book and Author Luncheons, sponsored by the American Booksellers Association and the Herald Tribune, from 1938 to 1963.

Due to a mutual interest in southern history (Van Doren was the granddaughter of Union General William T. H. Brooks), she met Wendell Willkie, the Republican presidential nominee in 1940.