Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Hendrik Willem Van Loon (January 14, 1882 - March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian and journalist.
Born in Rotterdam, he immigrated into the United States in 1903. He was a correspondent during the Russian revolutionary outbreak of 1905 and in Belgium in 1914 at the start of World War I. He later became a professor of history at Cornell University.
During the 1920s Van Loon wrote many books, most notably The Story of Mankind, a history of the world especially for children which won the first Newbery Medal in 1922. He went on to write many other very popular books aimed at young adults. As a writer he was known for emphasizing crucial historical events and giving a complete picture of individual characters, as well as the role of the arts in history. He also had an informal style which, particularly in The Story of Mankind, included personal anecdotes.
Bibliography
A partial list of books by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, with first publication dates.
- The Fall of the Dutch Republic, 1913
- The Romance of Discovery, 1917
- Ancient man; the beginning of civilizations, 1920
- The Story of Mankind, 1921
- The Story of the Bible, 1923
- Tolerance, 1925
- America, 1927
- Multiplex man, 1928
- Life and Times of Peter Stuyvesant, 1928
- R.v.R., 1930 (Fictional Biography of Rembrandt)
- Van Loon's Geography, 1932
- Ships and How They Sailed the Seven Seas, 1935
- Around the world with the alphabet and Hendrik Willem van Loon, 1935
- World divided is a world lost, 1935
- Home of mankind; the story of the world we live in, 1936
- The Arts, 1937
- Our Battle: Being One Man's Answer to My Battle By Adolf Hitler, 1938
- The Story of the Pacific, Harcourt, 1940
- Life and times of Johann Sebastian Bach, 1940
- Van Loon's Lives, 1942
- Thomas Jefferson, 1943
- Life and times of Simon Bolivar, 1943
External link
- Books by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Hendrik_Willem_Van_Loon) at Project Gutenberg