Hendrik Willem Van Loon (né le à Rotterdam et mort le Notice d'autorité, sur le site du catalogue général de la BnF. Page consultée le 25 février 2013. à Greenwich, Connecticut), est un historien, géographe et journaliste néerlando-américain.
Biographie
Œuvres The Fall of the Dutch Republic, 1913, Houghton Mifflin Co. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1915, Doubleday Page & Co. The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators, 1916, The Century Co. A Short History of Discovery: From the Earliest Times to the Founding of Colonies in the American Continent, 1917, David McKay Ancient man; the Beginning of Civilizations, 1920, Boni and Liveright L'Histoire de l'humanité (The Story of Mankind), 1921, Boni and Liveright The Story of the Bible, 1923, Boni and Liveright Witches and Witch-Finders, 1923, article from the June 1923 Mentor Magazine The Story of Wilbur the Hat, 1925, Boni and Liveright Tolerance, 1925, Boni and Liveright The Liberation of Mankind: the story of man's struggle for the right to think, 1926, Boni and Liveright America: The Story of America from the very beginning up to the present, 1927, Boni and Liveright Adriaen Block, 1928, Block Hall Multiplex man, or the Story of Survival through Invention, 1928, Jonathan Cape Life and Times of Peter Stuyvesant, 1928, Henry Holt Man the Miracle Maker, 1928, Horace Liveright R. v. R.: the Life and Times of Rembrandt van Rijn, 1930, Horace Liveright If the Dutch Had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam, dans If, Or History Rewritten, édité par J. C. Squire, 1931, Simon and Schuster Van Loon's Geography: The Story of the World We Live In, 1932, Simon and Schuster Gold 1933, article du Cosmopolitan, An Elephant Up a Tree, 1933, Simon and Schuster An Indiscreet Itinerary or How the Unconventional Traveler Should See Holland by one who was actually born there and whose name is Hendrik Willem Van loon, 1933, Harcourt, Brace The Home of Mankind: the story of the world we live in, 1933, George G. Harrap The story of inventions: Man, the Miracle Maker, 1934, Horace Liveright Ships: and How They Sailed the Seven Seas (5000 B.C.-A.D.1935), 1935, Simon and Schuster Around the World With the Alphabet, 1935, Simon and Schuster Air-Storming: A Collection of 40 Radio Talks, 1935, Harcourt, Brace Love me not, 1935 A World Divided is a World Lost, 1935, Cosmos Publishing Co. The Songs We Sing (avec Grace Castagnetta), 1936, Simon and Schuster The Arts (avec des illustrations musicales par Grace Castagnetta), 1937, Simon and Schuster Christmas Carols (avec Grace Castagnetta), 1937, Simon and Schuster Observations on the mystery of print and the work of Johann Gutenberg, 1937, Book Manufacturer's Institute/New York Times Our Battle: Being One Man's Answer to "My Battle" by Adolf Hitler, 1938, Simon and Schuster How to Look at Pictures: a Short History of Painting, 1938, National Committee for Art Appreciation Folk Songs of Many Lands (avec Grace Castagnetta), 1938, Simon and Schuster The Last of the Troubadours: The Life and Music of Carl Michael Bellman 1740-1795 (avec Grace Castagnetta), 1939, Simon and Schuster The Songs America Sings (avec Grace Castagnetta), 1939, Simon and Schuster My School Books, 1939, E. I. du Pont de Nemours Invasion, being the personal recollections of what happened to our own family and to some of our friends during the first forty-eight hours of that terrible incident in our history which is now known as the great invasion and how we escaped with our lives, 1940, Harcourt, Brace The Story of the Pacific, 1940, George G. Harrap The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach, 1940, Simon and Schuster Good Tidings (with Christmas songs by Grace Castegnetta), 1941, American Artists Group The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, with a short life of the Author by Hendrik Willem van Loon of Rotterdam who also illustrated the Book, 1942 Van Loon's Lives: Being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as dinner guests in a bygone year, 1942, Simon and Schuster Christmas Songs, 1942 The Message of the Bells (with music by Grace Castagnetta), 1942, New York Garden City Fighters for Freedom: the Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson and Simón Bolívar, 1943, Dodd, Mead & Co. The Life and Times of Scipio Fulhaber, Chef de Cuisine, 1943 Adventures and Escapes of Gustavus Vasa, and how they carried him from his rather obscure origin to the throne of Sweden, 1945 Report to Saint Peter, upon the kind of world in which Hendrik Willem van Loon spent the first years of his life (autobiographie inachevée publiée à titre posthume), 1947, Simon and Schuster
Bibliographie Cornelis van Minnen, Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. . Gerard Willem Van Loon, The story of Hendrik Willem van Loon, Lippincott, 1972. .
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Liens externes
Notice d'autorité, sur le site du catalogue général de la BnF Œuvres de Van Loon sur le Projet Gutenberg
Catégorie:Naissance en janvier 1882 Catégorie:Naissance à Rotterdam Catégorie:Décès en mars 1944 Catégorie:Décès à Greenwich (Connecticut) Catégorie:Historien américain du XXe siècle Catégorie:Journaliste américain du XXe siècle Catégorie:Journaliste néerlandais du XXe siècle Catégorie:Décès à 62 ans Catégorie:Lauréat de la médaille Newbery