WRITER

Meindert DeJong

1906 - 1991

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Meindert De Jong, sometimes spelled de Jong, DeJong or Dejong (4 March 1906 – 16 July 1991) was a Dutch-born American writer of children's books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meindert DeJong has received more than 66,486 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Meindert DeJong is the 5,541st most popular writer (up from 5,554th in 2019), the 852nd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 840th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Dutch Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 66k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The wheel on the school
Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Storks
Six students in a tiny Dutch sea town engage practically the whole population in an effort to attract storks to nest on the town's roofs again.
1954
Shadrach
1971
The singing hill
Country life, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
A little boy moves to the country with his family and gets a new hat which floats down a stream, gets chewed by a horse, and protects a skunk's home from the rain.
1953
The house of sixty fathers
Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.
1956
The wheel on the school
Children's stories, Children's fiction, Schools, fiction
1956
The House of Sixty Fathers
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, Rapids, Juvenile fiction
1971

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Meindert DeJong ranks 5,541 out of 7,302. Before him are Rick Warren, Ramsey Campbell, Wajdi Mouawad, Albert Engström, Kenneth Burke, and Michael Grant. After him are Antoni Lange, Þórbergur Þórðarson, John Esposito, Tom Robbins, Ferdinand von Schirach, and Grace Paley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Meindert DeJong ranks 337. Before him are Mary Brian, Paul Creston, William Wilson Morgan, Clark Clifford, Zoltan Sarosy, and Ernest Libérati. After him are Stefan Andres, Károly Kárpáti, Jan Diddens, William Feller, Käthe Krauss, and Snorri Hjartarson. Among people deceased in 1991, Meindert DeJong ranks 211. Before him are Gustav Schäfer, Bruno Venturini, Adrian Quist, Giacomo Mari, Wilhelm Brinkmann, and Yulia Drunina. After him are Eladio Rojas, Robin Hill, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Lars Hall, Zośka Vieras, and Stan Mortensen.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Meindert DeJong ranks 852 out of 1,646. Before him are Maria Vierdag (1905), Catharina Lodders (1942), Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh (1881), Anthony van Hoboken (1887), Paul Haarhuis (1966), and Alfred Schreuder (1972). After him are Harm Ottenbros (1943), Sarina Wiegman (1969), Sylvia Hoeks (1983), Bryan Roy (1970), Gijsbert van Tienhoven (1841), and Hendrik Marsman (1899).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Meindert DeJong ranks 52. Before him are Jan de Hartog (1914), Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (1812), Remco Campert (1929), Fedde Schurer (1898), J. Bernlef (1937), and Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh (1881). After him are Hendrik Marsman (1899), Guus Kuijer (1942), J. Slauerhoff (1898), Gerrit Achterberg (1905), Ian Buruma (1951), and Michel Faber (1960).

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