Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Hendrik Willem Van Loon 1882 1944 was a Dutch-American historian and journalist. Born in Rotterdam, he came to the United States in 1903. He was a correspondent during the Russian revolutionary outbreak of 1905 and in Belgium in 1914 at the start of World War I. During the 1920s he wrote many books, most notably The Story of Mankind, a history of the world especially for children which won the first Newbery Medal in 1922. His other books include "The Fall of the Dutch Republic", "The Story of the Bible", "Tolerance", "America" and "R.V.R.: A Fictional Biography of Rembrandt." His books were popular with the general public, as he emphasized crucial events, emphasized the role of the arts in history and had an informal style which, particularly in The Story of Mankind, included personal anecdotes. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.