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Jan de Hartog (1914-2002) was an internationally
renown Quaker novelist and playwright. He wrote
nearly two dozen novels, and half a dozen plays.
Born and raised in the Netherlands, de Hartog
moved to the United States in the early 1960's.
He donated his personal library and a
comprehensive collection of original manuscripts
to the College in 1985. In addition, the author
also presented the College with his own writing
desk, and other pieces of furniture; notes; tape
logs; motion picture film from a Quaker
documentary he produced; story planning boards;
a ship’s wheel; and assorted framed items.
Jan de Hartog's 1940 work, Holland's Glory, is a
Dutch national treasure. This best-selling novel
inspired the Dutch people during the German
occupation in World War II. de Hartog also wrote
an important Quaker trilogy: The Peaceable
Kingdom (1978), followed by The Lamb's War
(1982), and The Peculiar People (1988). Jan de
Hartog's 1951 play, The Fourposter, was later
produced as the Tony-award winning Broadway
musical, I Do, I Do. Six of his novels were made
into motion pictures. Jan de Hartog was awarded
an honorary doctorate from Whittier College in
1985.
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