# Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem Van Loon (né le 14 janvier 1882 à Rotterdam et mort le 11 mars 1944 à Greenwich, Connecticut), est un historien et journaliste néerlando-américain.

## 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, mars 1933
* 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