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Hendrik Willem van Loon[a] (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author. Life. On December 20, 1939, a great sympathy meeting for Finland, then embroiled in the Winter War, was arranged in Madison Square Garden.
In 1931 Bing met Hendrik Willem van Loon, a Dutch American writer based in New York who became her patron and her entrée into the American art world. He introduced her work to art dealer Julien Levy, who exhibited her photographs at his gallery in the exhibit “Modern European…
Hendrik Willem van Loon was a prolific Dutch American author, historian and illustrator. During his early professional years, van Loon also was an Associated Press news correspondent reporting from Russia on the Russian Revolution in 1905, and on the First World War, reporting from Belgium, during its early stages in 1914.
The Story of Mankind is a book written and illustrated by Dutch-American journalist, professor, and author Hendrik Willem van Loon. It was published in 1921. In 1922, it was awarded the Newbery Medal for an outstanding contribution to children's literature. This was the first year the Newbery Medal was awarded.
Hendrik Willem van Loon was destined to be a popularizer. After graduating from Cornell University, van Loon worked as a journalist for the Associated Press in Russia and Poland, before pursuing his PhD in history at the University of Munich.
Van Loon the Illustrator. Although he had no formal training in art, Hendrik Willem van Loon was as prolific an illustrator as he was a writer. Every one of his forty-plus books featured his drawings, maps and sketches, and many of his newspaper columns similarly were accompanied by drawings.
U.S. historian and illustrator Hendrik Willem van Loon was the first recipient of the American Library Association’s Newbery Medal, a prestigious honor recognizing excellence in children’s literature.
