Author:Hendrik Willem van Loon

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Hendrik Willem van Loon
(1882–1944)
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Dutch-American historian, journalist, illustrator, and award-winning children's book author; first recipient of the Newberry Award in 1922, for his non-fiction children's book The Story of Mankind (1921)

Hendrik Willem van Loon

Works

  • The Fall of the Dutch Republic (1913) (external scan)
  • The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795–1813: A Short Account of the Early Development of the Modern Kingdom of the Netherlands (1915) (external scan)
  • The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators (1916) (external scan)
  • A Short History of Discovery: From the Earliest Times to the Founding of Colonies in the American Continent, [aka: History with a Match and The Romance of Discovery...] (1917) (external scan)
  • Ancient Man: The Beginning of Civilizations (1920) (external scan)
  • The Liberation Of Mankind (1920) (external scan)
  • The Story of Mankind (1921)
  • Van Loon's Geography (1921)
  • Van Loon’s Lives (1922) (external scan)
  • The Arts Of Mankind (1922) (external scan)
  • The Story of the Bible (1923) (external scan)
  • An Indiscreet Itinerary Of How The Unconventional Traveler Should See Holland (1933)(external scan)
  • The Story Of The Pacific (1940) (external scan)
  • Czechoslovak Contemporary Art (1942)

Short works

  • '"Planmeessig" and "Ausgeschlossen"', (essay) in The Century Magazine, Jun 1915
  • "The World after the War", (essay) in The Century Magazine, Feb 1916
  • "The Neutrals and the Allied Cause", (essay) in The Century Magazine, Jan 1917
  • "Witches and Witch-Finders", 1923, article from the June 1923 Mentor Magazine
  • "After Seven Years", (essay) in The Story of Mankind, 1926 revised edition

As illustrator

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1944, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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