{"id":2841,"date":"2015-04-06T21:11:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2015-04-06T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T02:11:07","slug":"van-loon-hendrick-willem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/van-loon-hendrick-willem\/","title":{"rendered":"van Loon, Hendrick Willem"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2842 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ph_vnlon.jpg\" alt=\"Hendrick Willem van Loon\" width=\"140\" height=\"156\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2843 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_wilbr.jpg\" alt=\"Story of Wilbur the Hat\" width=\"120\" height=\"172\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2844 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_ancnt.jpg\" alt=\"Ancient Man\" width=\"120\" height=\"174\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2845 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_story.jpg\" alt=\"Story of Mankind\" width=\"120\" height=\"166\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">Hendrik Willem van Loon was born on January 14th in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 1882. He came to the United States in 1902.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">Van Loon was a newspaper correspondent in Russia during the revolution of 1905, in several European countries in 1906, and also during World War I. During World War II he wrote and broadcasted for the United States and the Netherlands. Van Loon was recognized as an American historian, biographer, journalist, and lecturer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">In 1922 he won the first Newbery Medal for <em>The Story of Mankind<\/em>. He wrote and illustrated many other books for children, and they were equally popular with adults. They include <em>Ancient Man<\/em> (1920); <em>The Story of the Bible<\/em> (1923); <em>Tolerance<\/em> (1925); <em>America<\/em> (1927); <em>Van Loon&#8217;s Geography<\/em> (1932); <em>Ships<\/em> (1935); <em>The Arts<\/em> (1937);<em> Van Loon&#8217;s Lives<\/em> (1942); and <em>Thomas Jefferson<\/em> (1943).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\">Hendrik Willem van Loon died in 1944.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Martha Valainis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hendrik Willem van Loon was born on January 14th in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 1882. He came to the United States in 1902. Van Loon was a newspaper correspondent in Russia during the revolution of 1905, in several European countries in 1906, and also during World War I. 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