Īfter having revisited Germany many times in the 1920s, he was banned from the country when the Nazis came to power. In 19, he was a professor of history at Antioch College. As an illustrator of his own books, he was known for his lively black-and-white drawings and his chronological diagrams. He had an informal and thought-provoking style which, particularly in The Story of Mankind, included personal anecdotes. As a writer he was known for emphasizing crucial historical events and giving a full picture of individual characters, as well as the role of the arts in history. He wrote many popular books aimed at young adults. The book was later updated by Van Loon, then again by his son, and later still by other historians. Best remembered among these is The Story of Mankind (1921), a history of the world intended for children, which won the first Newbery Medal in 1922. "The Young Nile", illustration by Van Loon for his book Ancient Man, 1922įrom the 1910s until his death, Van Loon wrote many books, illustrating them himself. Van Loon had two later marriages, to Eliza Helen (Jimmie) Criswell in 1920 and playwright Frances Goodrich Ames in 1927, but after a divorce from Ames he returned to Criswell (it is debatable whether or not they remarried) she inherited his estate in 1944. He lectured at Cornell University from 1915 to 1916 in 1919 he became an American citizen. He was a correspondent for the Associated Press during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and again in Belgium in 1914 at the start of World War I. from the University of Munich in 1911 with a dissertation that became his first book, The Fall of the Dutch Republic (1913). The newlyweds moved to Germany, where van Loon received his Ph.D. In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch (1880–1955), daughter of a Harvard professor, by whom he had two sons, Henry Bowditch and Gerard Willem. He immigrated to the United States in 1902 to study at Harvard University and then Cornell University, where he received his AB in 1905. He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken. van Loon, and the mayor of New York, Fiorello La Guardia. In the picture from the left are former president Herbert Hoover (chairman of the Finland committee), Dr. On December 20, 1939, a great sympathy meeting for Finland, then embroiled in the Winter War, was arranged in Madison Square Garden.
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