Winner of the first John Newberry Medal, Hendrik Willem van Loon s The Story of Mankind, originally written for the author s grandchildren, has charmed generations with its warmth and wisdom. Beginning with the origins of human life and sweeping forward to illuminate all
亨德里克·威廉·房龙Hendrik Willem Van Loon(1882- 1944)
美国耶鲁大学历史教授。因出版《人类的故事》一书而饮誉世界。一生出版有三十余种书籍,绝大部分为风靡世界的畅销书,其人文主义的立场,通俗易懂、俏皮睿智的文风,影响了一代又一代的读者。
Hendrik Willem van Loon received worldwide acclaim for the many books that he both wrote and illustrated. Among his most beloved are The Story of America, The Story of the Bible and The Life and Times of Rembrandt. European born and educated, van Loon was a professor at Antioch College and lectured at Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Munich.
Robert Sullivan is the best-selling author of Rats and My American Revolution.
John Merriman is the Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. A specialist in nineteenth century French history, Merriman earned his Ph. D at the University of Michigan. He is the author of many books, including The Margins of City Life: Explorations on the French Urban Frontier, 1815–1851; Red City: Limoges and the French Nineteenth Century; The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848–1851; and, most recently, The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time Norton, 2002. He regularly teaches the survey of modern European history at Yale.