Author:Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon
(1882–1944)

Dutch-American historian, journalist, 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

Short works

  • "The Neutrals and the Allied Cause", (essay) in The Century Magazine, Jan 1917
  • '"Planmeessig" and "Ausgeschlossen"', (essay) in The Century Magazine, Jun 1915
  • "The World after the War", (essay) in The Century Magazine, Feb 1916
  • "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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